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HISTORY 

OF  THE 

SCOTT    FAMILY 


BY 

HENRY   LEE 


NEW  YORK 

R.  L.  POLK  AND  COMPANY,  INC. 


Copyright  1919 
R.   L.  POLK  &  Co.  Inc. 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS: 


Chapter  I 7 

Origin  of  the  name  of  Scott — Early  History — Buc- 
cleuch— "The  Buck  in  the  Cleuch"— Auld  Wat  o'  Har- 
den— Sir  Michael  Scott — The  Wizard  of  the  North. 

Chapter  II    20 

The  Cradle  of  the  Race — The  Family  and  the  Border 
Feuds — "Ready,  aye,  Ready" — Sir  John  Scott  of 
Thirlestane — "Mount  for  Branxholm." 

Chapter  III  30 

Branches  of  the  Scott  Family — Records  of  the 
Different  Branches — Lord  Chancellor  Eldon  and 
Baron  Stowell — Sir  Walter  Scott. 

Chapter  IV   46 

Early  American  History  of  the  Family — Arrival  of 
the  First  Scotts  in  America — Story  of  the  Early 
Settlers — Three  Adventurers  for  Virginia — Richard 
Scott  Lands  at  Boston — Scott  of  Long  Island. 

Chapter  V   56 

The  Scotts  in  Revolutionary  Times — From  the  Revo- 
lution to  the  Civil  War — Civil  War  Records. 

Chapter  VI   74 

The  Scott  Family  in  the  United  States. 

Chapter  VII   97 

Lines  of  Descent  in  Scotland  and  England — Heads 
of  the  Family — Notable  Scotts  in  the  British  Empire. 

Chapter  VIII 112 

Armorial  Bearings — Ancestral  Seats. 


PREFACE 

LL  races  of  men  seem  to  have  an  intuitive 
feeling  that  it  is  a  subject  of  legitimate 
pride  to  be  one  of  a  clan  or  family  whose 
name  is  written  large  in  past  history  and 
present  affairs.  Everybody  likes  to  know  something: 
about  his  forefathers,  and  to  be  able  to  tell  to  his  chil- 
dren the  tales  or  stories  about  their  ancestors,  which 
he  himself  has  heard  from  his  parents.  The  command- 
ment, "Honor  thy  father  and  thy  mother,"  is  good 
and  sufficient  authority  for  that  feeling  of  reverence 
which  is  so  generally  shown  towards  a  line  of 
honorable  ancestry.  The  history  of  the  family  was 
a  matter  of  much  importance  to  the  Greek  and 
Roman;  the  Chinese  go  so  far  as  to  magnify  such 
reverence  into  ancestor  worship  and  even  the  Red 
Indian  of  our  own  Northwest  recorded  the  tradi- 
tions of  his  ancestors  on  the  totem  of  his  tribe. 
Well,  then,  may  the  story  of  the  chivalry,  courage 
and  even  lawlessness  (so  often  the  mate  of  cour- 
age) of  their  forefathers  find  a  responsive  echo 
in  the  hearts  of  Scotts  of  the  present  generation. 
It  is  not  intended  in  this  "History  of  the  Scott 
Family"  to  attempt  any  genealogical  investigation 
or  show  any  family  tree,  but  rather  to  tell  of  those 
bygone  Scotts  in  whose  achievements  and  history 
it  is  the  common  heritage  of  all  who  bear  the  name 
to  take  pride  and  interest — old  stories  of  Scotts 
of  reckless  bravery,  of  Scotts  who  were  good  and 
true  friends  and  of  Scotts  who  were  fierce  and 

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6  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

bitter  enemies — stories  of  Scotts  who  fought  hard, 
lived  hard  and  died  as  they  fought  and  lived.  Those 
olden  days  may  seem  a  time  of  scant  respect  for 
law,  of  misdirected  chivalry  and  of  brave  deeds, 
often  wrongly  done,  but  there  is  surely  no  true 
Scott  who,  in  his  inmost  heart,  is  not  proud  to 
claim  descent  from  a  family  whose  ancient  records 
are  replete  with  such  traditions ;  whose  later  records 
tell  of  those  early  adventurers  who  left  their  native 
hills  and  dales  for  the  new  land  of  promise  and 
whose  descendants  have,  in  more  prosaic  times, 
earned  honors  in  literature,  arms  and  art.  "It  is 
wise  for  us  to  recur  to  the  history  of  our  ancestors. 
Those  who  do  not  look  upon  themselves  as  links 
connecting  the  past  with  the  future  do  not  fulfill 
their  duty  in  the  world." 


CHAPTER  I. 

HE  surname  Scott  is  of  great  antiquity 
and  authorities  differ  as  to  the  origin 
of  the  name.  The  theory  of  Professor 
Innes,  in  relation  to  the  original  name 
of  Scot  or  Scott  in  Scotland,  was  that  long  before 
surnames  were  known,  the  people  of  that  country 
received  the  appellation  of  Scotus  or  Scot  in  addi- 
tion to  their  former  name,  thus  plain  Robert  became 
Robert  Scot  and  reared  a  family  who  retained  the 
name  of  their  ancestor.  This  especially  may  have 
been  so  with  those  who  wandered  from  Scotland  into 
other  countries,  and  who  became  known  as  Robert 
the  Scot,  David  Scotus  as  the  case  might  be. 

Other  historians  claim  that  the  name  of  Scot- 
land itself  was  derived  from  the  family  name;  in 
fact,  claim  that  a  family  of  primitive  gypsies  gave 
a  name  to  the  country  in  which  it  located  instead 
of  a  country  giving  a  surname  to  divers  wanderers 
from  its  borders. 

In  support  of  this  theory  Boethius,  Vermundus, 
Cornelius  and  Scaliger  claim  that  the  name  of  Scott 
originated  from  Scota,  the  daughter  of  the  Pharaoh 
who  was  drowned  in  the  Red  Sea.  The  story  told 
in  support  of  this  origin  of  the  name  follows :  Ga- 
thelus,  a  son  of  Cecrops,  King  of  Athens,  being  ban- 
ished from  that  kingdom,  fled  to  Egypt  with  a  large 
band  of  followers.  This  was  in  the  time  of  Moses, 
and  Pharaoh  being  engaged  in  war  was  glad  to 

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8  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

accept  the  aid  of  the  followers  of  Gathelus,  whom  he 
made  a  general  of  the  combined  forces.  The  enemy 
nations  were  subdued  and  as  a  reward  Pharaoh 
gave  his  daughter  Scota  in  marriage  to  the  vic- 
torious Gathelus.  Later  Gathelus  and  Scota,  with 
a  goodly  following,  escaping  from  the  plagues  in 
Egypt,  fled  to  Spain,  naming  that  portion  of  the 
country  Port  Gathale  which  is  now  known  as  Portu- 
gal. Here  Gathelus  gave  to  his  followers  the  name 
of  "Scottis"  from  the  love  he  bore  his  wife  Scota. 
After  years  of  war  with  the  natives  of  Spain  these 
nomad  "Scottis"  once  more  set  sail  and  landed  in 
Ireland,  from  whence  they  afterwards  went  over  to 
the  northern  part  of  the  adjacent  island  of  Britain, 
naming  the  country  Scotland  or  the  land  of  the 
Scottis. 

This  theory  of  the  origin  of  the  name  is  treated 
by  many  historians  as  fabulous, — but  Geoffrey  Keat- 
ing, the  Irish  antiquary,  claims  that  the  followers  of 
Gathelus  and  Scota  landed  in  Ireland  A.  M.  2736  (B. 
C.  1303) ;  and  a  number  of  ancient  antiquaries  and 
historians  agree  that  the  name  of  Scott  is  derived 
from  the  Egyptian  Scota.  An  interesting  point  in 
this  connection  is  the  entry  found  in  the  Psalter  of 
Cashel  as  follows:  Heber  Scot,  son  of  Seru,  son 
of  Easru,  son  of  Gadelas,  son  of  Niul,  son  of  Feniusa- 
Farsa,  son  of  Baath,  son  of  Magog,  son  of  Japhet. 
The  name  of  Scot  within  seven  generations  of  the 
Flood! 

Among  the  very  early  records  of  persons  bearing 
the  name  are  those  relating  to  two  natives  of  Scot- 
land named  John  and  Clement,  who  are  mentioned 
as  being  in  Paris  in  the  time  of  Charlemagne.  Al- 
though no  authority  is  found  enabling  the  exact 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  9 

date  to  be  established,  the  fact  that  John  or  Johannes 
was  an  instructor  of  Charlemagne  fixes  the  time 
about  the  middle  of  the  eighth  century.  Scott  of 
Sachells,  a  worthy  son  of  the  border,  writing  in 
1686  his  lengthy  and  poetical  defence  of  the  clan, 
relates  the  following  as  to  John  and  Clement: 

"A  thousand  years  if  I  do  not  forget 

By  chronicles  I'll  prove  the  name  of  Scot. 

In  King  Achaius  time,  that  worthy  prince, 

John  and  Clement  Scots  they  went  to  France; 

In  Paris  they  at  first  began, 

In  Charles  the  Great  his  time 

To  instruct  the  Christian  religion." 

And  Buchanan,  in  his  History  of  Scotland,  confirms 
the  historical  facts  of  Sachells,  and  asserts  that 
Charles  the  Great  of  France  sent  to  Scotland  for  some 
learned  and  pious  men  "among  whom  was  Johannes 
surnamed  Scotus."  Buchanan  also  mentions  him 
as  the  instructor  of  Charlemagne  and  Clement  as  a 
learned  professor  in  Paris  at  that  time. 

The  first  occurrence  of  the  name  of  Scott  in  writ- 
ings now  preserved  seems  to  be  "Uchtred  Filius 
Scoti"  among  the  witnesses  to  a  charter  to  the  Ab- 
bacy of  Selkirk,  granted  by  David  I  who  was  on  the 
throne  of  Scotland  from  1124  to  1153.  Uchtred  had 
one  son,  Richard,  who  was  the  father  of  two  sons, 
Richard  the  elder  being  the  ancestor  of  the  Buc- 
cleuch  family  and  from  the  younger  son,  Sir  Michael, 
the  Scotts  of  Balwearie  are  descended.  Following 
the  line  of  descent  of  Richard,  the  elder  son,  we 
find  Sir  Richard  who  acquired  the  estates  of  Mur- 
dieston  by  marriage  with  the  heiress  in  1296  and 
who  died  in  1320.  His  son  Michael  had  two  sons, 
Robert  and  Walter  of  Synton.  The  latter  was  the 


10  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

ancestor  of  the  Scotts  of  Harden  of  whom  more  will 
be  told  later.  Robert's  great-grandson  Sir  Walter 
was  the  father  of  two  sons,  Sir  David  of  Branxholm 
and  Alexander  of  Howpaisley.  From  the  younger 
son  was  descended  Francis  of  Thirlestane  who  was 
created  a  Baronet  in  1666  and  was  the  father  of 
Sir  William  the  second  Baronet.  Sir  William,  on 
his  marriage  with  the  Mistress  of  Napier  assumed 
that  name  and  from  him  is  descended  the  present 
representative,  Francis  Edward  Basil  Baron  Napier 
and  Ettrick  of  Thirlestane,  Selkirk.  Sir  David 
Branxholm,  the  elder  son  of  Sir  Walter,  had  two 
sons,  David,  whose  great-great-grandson  Sir  Walter 
was  created  Baron  Scott  of  Buccleuch  in  1606  and 
Robert,  ancestor  of  the  Scotts  of  Scotstarvit. 

Tradition  gives  the  following  romantic  origin  of 
the  name  Buccleuch,  which  name  had,  long  prior 
to  the  creation  of  the  title,  been  closely  associated 
with  the  name  of  Scott.  Two  brothers,  banished 
from  Galloway,  came  to  Ettrick  Forest  where  they 
were  gladly  received  by  Brydone,  the  keeper  of 
the  forest,  on  account  of  their  skill  in  forestry 
and  the  chase;  the  hunting  horn  formerly  borne  in 
the  field  of  the  Buccleuch  arms  alluding  to  this  fact. 
Kenneth  MacAlpine,  King  of  Scotland  (844-860), 
coming  to  hunt  in  Ettrick  Forest  and  pursuing  a 
buck  from  Ettrick  Heugh  to  a  glen,  afterwards 
known  as  Buckscleugh,  found  the  stag  at  bay.  The 
King  and  his  companions  of  the  chase  following  on 
horseback  were  thrown  out  by  the  steepness  of  the 
hill,  and  John,  one  of  the  Galloway  brothers,  follow- 
ing the  stag  on  foot,  seized  the  buck  by  the  horns, 
threw  him  on  his  back  and  carrying  him  up  the 
hill,  laid  the  buck  at  the  feet  of  the  King.  This 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  11 

incident  is  told  in  Watt's  Bellenden,  after  describing 
the  killing  and  "curee'ing"  of  the  deer: 

"The  King  did  wash  into  a  dish 
And  Galloway  John  he  wot; 
He  said  "Thy  name  now  after  this 
Shall  ever  be  called  John  Scott." 

*        *        *        * 

"And  for  the  buck  thou  stoutly  brought 
To  us  up  that  steep  heugh 
Thy  designation  ever  shall 
Be  John  Scott  in  Buckscleugh." 

Their  name  and  style  the  book  doth  say 
John  gained  them  both  into  one  day." 

The  first  Baron  Scott  of  Buccleuch  died  1611,  be- 
ing succeeded  by  his  son  Walter,  whose  title  was 
raised  to  Earl  of  Buccleuch  in  1619.  He  was  fol- 
lowed by  his  son  Francis,  referred  to  by  Sir  Walter 
Scott  in  "The  Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel"  as  "The  Good 
Earl  Francis  dead  and  gone."  His  death  occurred  in 
1651,  leaving  two  daughters,  Mary  and  Anne.  Mary, 
Countess  of  Buccleuch,  married  Walter  Scott  of 
Highchester,  a  scion  of  the  house  of  Harden,  who 
was  granted  the  life  title  of  Earl  of  Tarras.  Mary 
died  without  issue  and  was  succeeded  in  the  title 
by  her  sister  Anne,  Countess  of  Buccleuch.  Anne 
had  been  brought  up  in  the  massive  square  tower  on 
the  banks  of  the  Yarrow  known  as  Newark  Castle, 
which  was  chosen  by  Sir  Walter  Scott  as  the  "stately 
tower"  wherein  the  wandering  harper  recited  to  her 
the  story  told  in  "The  Lay  of  the  Last  MinstreL" 
Anne  married  James,  Duke  of  Monmouth,  natural 
son  of  Charles  II  and  on  their  marriage  they  were 
created  Duke  and  Duchess  of  Buccleuch.  The  Duke 


12  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

of  Monmouth  was  beheaded  in  1685.  He  had  two 
sons,  James,  Earl  of  Dalkeith,  and  Henry,  who  in 
1706  was  created  Earl  of  Deloraine.  The  title  Delo- 
raine  came  from  the  lands  of  Deloraine  which 
marched  with  those  of  Buccleuch  in  Ettrick  Forest 
and  had  from  time  immemorial  been  in  possession 
of  the  Scotts  of  Buccleuch,  and  granted  by  them  to 
kinsmen  for  Border  services  rendered.  Among  such 
kinsmen  was  William  of  Deloraine,  "Good  knight  and 
true  of  noble  strain"  between  whom  and  Richard  of 
Musgrave  was  arranged  the  trial  by  single  combat 
at  Branksome.  The  Earldom  of  Deloraine  became 
extinct  on  the  death  of  the  fourth  Earl  in  1807. 

James,  Earl  of  Dalkeith,  the  above  named  son 
of  the  Duke  of  Monmouth  and  Anne,  Countess  of 
Buccleuch,  having  died  in  the  lifetime  of  his  father, 
his  son  Francis  became  the  second  Duke  of  Buc- 
cleuch. Henry,  the  grandson  of  Francis,  followed 
as  third  Duke  and  succeeded  also  to  the  Dukedom 
of  Queensberry.  He  had  two  sons,  Charles  the 
elder  and  fourth  Duke,  and  Henry,  who  became 
by  succession  Baron  Montagu,  whose  line  is  now 
represented  by  Baron  Montagu  of  Beaulieu.  The 
grandson  of  Duke  Charles  was  William,  sixth  Duke 
of  Buccleuch,  who  died  in  1914  and  was  succeeded 
by  his  son  John  Charles,  the  present  and  seventh 
Duke. 

To  return  to  Walter  Scott  of  Synton  previously 
mentioned  as  ancestor  of  the  Scotts  of  Harden.  This 
family,  however,  trace  their  descent  from  a  still 
earlier  younger  of  a  Scott,  who,  prior  to  the  mar- 
riage of  Sir  Richard  with  the  heiress  of  Murdieston, 
was  a  laird  of  Buccleuch.  Hence  they  bear  the 
cognizance  of  the  Scotts  upon  the  field : 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  13 

"Azure  in  a  golden  field 

The  Stars  and  crescent  graced  his  shield 

Without  the  bend  of  Murdieston." 

Whereas,  those  of  the  Buccleuch  family  are  dis- 
posed upon  a  bend  dexter  assumed  in  consequence 
of  the  Murdieston  marriage.  Walter  of  Synton  was 
the  ancestor  of  Walter  of  Harden,  a  celebrated  bor- 
der reiver  during  the  time  of  Queen  Mary  and  re- 
nowned in  Border  tradition  as  "Auld  Wat,"  who 
succeeded  his  father  as  Laird  of  Harden  in  1563.  He 
married  the  beautiful  Mary  Scott  of  Dryhope,  known 
as  "The  Flower  of  Yarrow,"  a  condition  of  the  mar- 
riage being,  that  for  a  year  and  a  day  after  mar- 
riage, the  bride's  father  was  bound  to  provide  for 
Wat  at  the  Tower  of  Dryhope ;  Harden  on  his  part 
agreeing  to  give  Dryhope  the  profits  of  the  "first 
Michaelmas  moon."  His  castle  upon  the  brink  of 
a  dark  and  precipitous  glen  was  the  storehouse 
of  the  fruits  of  many  a  raid  across  the  border, 
the  spoil  from  which  served  for  the  maintenance  of 
a  large  body  of  followers.  Auld  Wat  has  himself 
left  record  that  the  Flower  of  Yarrow  was  "a  curi- 
ous hand  at  pickling  the  beef  he  stole;"  and  the 
service  of  a  pair  of  clean  spurs  on  the  usually  well- 
provided  platter  was  notice  to  his  retainers  that  the 
time  had  again  arrived  to  sally  forth  a-reiving.  The 
story  is  told  that  on  one  occasion  the  live  stock  had 
become  so  low  as  to  be  referred  to,  in  Wat's  hearing, 
as  "Harden's  coo."  "By  my  faith,"  said  Wat 
"they'll  soon  say  Harden's  kye." 

"The  Michaelmas  moon  had  entered  then 

And  ere  she  wan  the  full 
Ye  might  see  by  her  light  in  Harden's  glen 

A  bow  of  kye  and  a  bassened  bull." 


14  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Auld  Wat  had  a  keen  eye  for  business.  When  five 
of  his  stalwart  sons  flew  to  arms  to  avenge  the 
death  of  a  brother,  slain  in  a  fray  by  the  Scotts 
of  Gilmanscleugh,  Auld  Wat  locked  them  in  the 
dungeon  of  his  castle,  hastened  to  Edinburgh, 
where  he  stated  his  case,  and  obtained  the  lands  of 
Gilmanscleugh  as  compensation.  He  returned  to 
Harden  with  the  charter,  releasing  his  sons  with  an 
order  "To  horse,  lads,  and  let's  take  possession. 
The  lands  of  Gilmanscleugh  are  well  worth  a  dead 
son." 

William,  Wat's  eldest  son,  apparently  followed  in 
the  f oosteps  of  his  father,  for  he  was  captured  "lift- 
ing" the  cattle  of  Murray  of  Elibank  and  condemned 
to  be  hanged  on  the  Elibank  gallows  tree,  an  ap- 
panage of  every  well-equipped  border  stronghold. 
It  happened,  however,  that  the  house  of  Elibank  in- 
cluded a  marriageable  daughter,  Agnes,  who  re- 
joiced, or  otherwise,  in  the  descriptive  name  of 
"Muckle-Mouthed  Meg."  William  was  given  the 
choice  between  the  gallows  tree  and  a  wife  and  chose 
what  seemed  to  him  the  lesser  evil,  securing  his  life 
and  liberty  by  a  marriage  with  Meg.  Another  and 
more  romantic  version  of  William's  marriage  tells  of 
his  refusal  to  wed  the  unseen  Muckle-Mouthed  Meg 
as  an  alternative  to  hanging  and  of  how  Meg,  posing 
as  the  gaoler's  daughter  whose  duty  it  was,  each 
morning,  to  take  the  prisoner  his  can  of  porridge, 
won  the  bold  reiver's  heart.  Browning  records  that 
William,  while  actually  under  the  gallows  tree,  ob- 
stinately refusing  marriage  with  Meg,  is  answered 
by  the  supposed  gaoler's  daughter: 

'  "Not  Muckle-Mouthed  Meg!     Wow  the  obstinate 
Perhaps  he  would  rather  wed  me !" 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  15 

"Ay  would  he — with  just  for  a  dowry  your  can!" 
"I'm  Muckled-Mouthed  Meg,"  chirruped  she.' 

They  had  five  sons,  Sir  Walter  Scott,  the  author, 
being  descended  from  their  third  son,  Walter  of 
Raeburn,  who,  not  to  be  outdone  by  others  in  the 
family,  had  a  descriptive  name,  "Watty  Wudspurs." 
The  Scotts  of  Raeburn  are  also  descended  from 
Watty. 

The  eldest  son  of  William  and  Meg,  also  named 
William,  died  without  issue;  the  second  son,  Sir 
Gideon,  was  the  father  of  Walter,  Earl  of  Tarras, 
who,  as  before  mentioned,  married  Mary,  Countess 
of  Buccleuch  and  whose  great-grandson  by  a  second 
marriage,  Hugh,  succeeded  to  the  Barony  of  Pol- 
warth. 

To  return  to  Sir  Michael,  the  second  son  of 
Richard,  and  grandson  of  Uchtred  Filius  Scoti.  This 
Sir  Michael  was  the  great-grandfather  of  that  most 
remarkable  character,  Sir  Michael  Scott,  the  wizard, 
who  was  born  during  the  reign  of  William  the  Lion, 
King  of  Scotland  1165-1214.  His  birthplace  is  un- 
certain, but  was  probably  in  upper  Tweeddale,  the 
cradle  of  the  Scott  family.  After  attending  the 
Cathedral  School  at  Durham  and  studying  at  Oxford 
he  took  Holy  Orders  in  Paris;  thence  he  went  to 
the  famous  law  school  at  Bologna  and  later  to 
Palermo,  where  he  was  appointed  tutor  to  Prince 
Frederick,  afterward  the  Emperor  Frederick  II. 
After  studying  alchemy,  astrology  and  chiromancy 
in  Spain,  Sir  Michael  returned  to  Palermo  as  Court 
Astrologer.  According  to  tradition  it  was  about 
this  time  that  "the  Veil  of  the  future  seemed  to  be 
lifted"  to  him  and  he  foretold  many  direful  happen- 
ings. His  fame  spread  as  a  skilful  magician,  and 


16  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Dante  in  the  "Inferno"  refers  to  him  as  "Michele 
Scotto,"  a  renowned  wizard.  In  1230,  he  returned 
to  Scotland,  his  skill  in  the  black  arts  having  pre- 
ceded him  and  it  being  generally  accepted  that  he 
had  sold  his  soul  to  the  Devil.  It  is  told  of  Sir 
Michael  that  he  evoked  a  fiend  in  the  shape  of  a 
black  horse  on  which  he  flew  through  the  air.  On 
this  demon  horse  he  flew  to  Paris  on  an  embassy 
to  obtain  certain  concessions  from  the  Bang  of 
France,  who  received  him  coldly  and  was  about  to 
deny  his  request,  when  Michael  besought  him  to 
delay  such  refusal  until  he  had  seen  the  horse  stamp 
three  times.  The  first  stamp  caused  the  bells  to 
ring  in  every  steeple;  the  second  shook  the  palace 
so  violently  that  three  towers  fell  in  ruins  and  to 
avoid  a  third  stamp  the  King  agreed  to  all  Sir 
Michael's  terms. 

Sir  Michael  took  up  his  abode  at  Oakwood  Tower, 
upon  the  River  Ettrick,  where  he  soon  learned  of 
the  fame  of  a  neighboring  sorceress,  known  as  the 
Witch  of  Falsehope,  living  on  the  other  side  of  the 
Ettrick.  Michael  resolved  to  put  her  powers  of 
witchcraft  to  the  test  and  riding  to  Falsehope  en- 
tered her  house  alone,  leaving  his  servant  and  grey- 
hounds on  the  threshold.  The  reputed  witch  stead- 
fastly denied  any  knowledge  of  necromancy.  While 
talking  with  her,  Sir  Michael  had  carelessly  laid  his 
wand  on  the  table ;  the  witch  snatched  up  the  wand 
and  struck  Sir  Michael  with  it,  instantly  changing 
his  external  appearance  to  that  of  a  hare.  Sir 
Michael's  servant,  waiting  without,  observing  the 
hare  scurrying  from  the  house,  at  once  slipped 
the  greyhounds  who  pursued  him  so  closely  to 
the  Tower  of  Oakwood  that  the  wizard  was  com- 


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pelled  to  take  ground  in  a  culvert,  where  he  gained 
time  to  reverse  the  charm  and  return  of  his  own 
form. 

This  could  not  pass  unavenged  and  accordingly 
Sir  Michael,  with  his  servant  and  dogs,  rode  to  a 
hill  above  Falsehope,  from  whence  he  dispatched 
his  servant  to  the  Witch,  requesting  food  for  the 
dogs;  at  the  same  time  giving  full  instructions  as 
to  the  course  to  pursue  if  such  request  were  refused. 
It  being  harvest  the  old  woman  was  baking  bread 
for  the  harvesters  and  returned  an  angry  refusal 
to  the  servant,  who,  thereupon,  following  his  mas- 
ter's orders,  affixed  above  the  door  a  paper  with  many 
cabalistic  signs  and  the  following  rhyme: 

"Maister  Michael  Scott's  man 
Sought  meat  and  gat  nane." 

The  magic  worked  instantly  and  the  woman  began 
to  dance  madly  round  and  round  the  fire,  repeating: 

"Maister  Michael  Scott's  man 
Sought  meat  and  gat  nane." 

She  was  powerless  to  stop  and  the  dance  con- 
tinued until  the  husband  dispatched  the  harvesters, 
one  after  another,  to  ascertain  what  had  delayed  his 
wife  sending  the  mid-day  meal  to  the  harvest-field. 
Each  messenger,  as  he  entered  the  house,  fell  victim 
to  the  charm  and  joined  in  the  dance  and  song. 
Round  and  round  the  fire  the  wife  and  the  harvesters 
danced,  unceasingly  chanting  the  rhyme.  The  old 
man  himself  at  last  came,  but  remembering  the  trick 
his  wife  had  served  Sir  Michael,  and  becoming  sus- 
picious, cautiously  looked  through  the  window  be- 
fore entering  the  house.  Seeing  the  madly  dancing 


18  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

company  and  gathering  from  the  words  of  the 
chant  the  author  of  the  charm,  he  hastened  to  the 
Wizard,  humbly  begging  a  cessation  of  the  spell. 
This  Sir  Michael  good  naturedly  granted,  at  the 
same  time  giving  the  old  man  directions  to  return 
to  his  home  and  break  the  spell  by  entering  the 
house  backwards  and  taking  the  paper  from  over 
the  door  with  his  left  hand.  On  this  being  done, 
the  spell  ceased  and  the  dance  ended. 

The  soul  of  Sir  Michael  having,  according  to  pop- 
ular belief,  been  sold  to  the  Devil,  the  time  arrived 
when  Satan  at  last  came  to  claim  his  own.  The 
Wizard,  however,  insisted  that  by  the  terms  of  the 
bargain  three  things  were  to  be  done  before  the 
bond  be  paid.  Of  these  three  works  two  appear  to 
have  been  performed.  First — a  cauld  to  be  made 
across  the  rapid  tumbling  waters  of  the  Tweed,  and 
the  cauld,  still  to  be  seen,  at  Kelso  Mill  attests  the 
enduring  quality  of  His  Satanic  Majesty's  handi- 
work. Secondly — Eildon  Hill  to  be  rent  in  three; 
"Eildon's  triple  height"  remains,  to-day,  a  testi- 
mony. But  the  third — to  weave  ropes  of  the  sea 
sand  at  the  mouth  of  Tweed  seems  yet  unaccom- 
plished; Tweedmouth's  ever  shifting  sands  being 
evidence  of  the  yet  uncompleted  work  of  the  powers 
of  darkness. 

It  remains  to  tell  of  the  death  and  place  of  burial 
of  the  Wizard,  concerning  both  of  which  tradition 
varies.  One  version  of  his  end  tells  how  his  wife, 
or  mistress,  having  treacherously  learned  that  his 
magic  could  ward  off  all  danger  save  that  of  the 
poison  of  a  broth  made  of  the  flesh  of  a  "breme"  sow, 
administered  such  a  broth  to  Sir  Michael  who  died 
after  eating  it.  Another  version  is  that  "the  veil 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  19 

of  the  future"  having  been  lifted  to  him,  he  could 
foretell  that  his  death  would  be  caused  by  the  fall 
of  a  stone.  To  avert  such  an  end,  it  is  told  that  he 
wore  constantly  a  steel  helmet;  but  in  vain,  for  being 
at  Mass  and  raising  his  helmet  on  the  elevation  of 
the  Host  a  stone  fell  from  the  roof,  killing  him  as 
he  knelt. 

His  place  of  burial  is  by  some  claimed  to  be  at 
Holme  Cultram  in  Cumberland ;  while  others,  includ- 
ing Sir  Walter  Scott,  claim  that  his  grave  is  in  the 
transept  of  Melrose  Abbey. 

The  first  name  of  Scott  to  be  found  in  English 
history  is  that  of  John  Scott,  who  was  Earl  of 
Chester,  born  1206.  Other  early  instances  of  the 
name  in  England  are  those  of  Sir  Peter  Scott,  first 
Mayor  of  Newcastle  and  Sir  Nicholas  Scott,  his  son. 
Also  Thomas  Scott,  afterwards  Archbishop  of  York, 
born  1424  at  Rotherham  or  Rotheram,  Yorkshire,  the 
name  of  Rotheram  being  assumed  by  him  in  place 
of  his  family  name.  He  was  Master  of  Pembroke 
College,  Cambridge,  also  Chancellor  of  the  Uni- 
versity and  was  successively  Bishop  of  Rochester, 
Bishop  of  Lincoln  and  Archbishop  of  York.  He  re- 
ceived the  red  hat  from  the  Pope  with  the  title  of 
Cardinal  Ste.  Ceciliae.  He  became  Lord  Chancellor 
of  England  in  1475,  being  known  as  Lord  Chancel- 
lor Rotheram.  He  founded  Lincoln  College,  Oxford, 
and  died  of  the  plague  in  the  year  1500. 


CHAPTER  II. 

ROM  the  sands  of  Solway  to  the  mouth  of 
Tweed,  stretches  that  land  of  minstrelsy 
and  romantic  story,  the  borders  of  Scot- 
land. A  land  of  far  flung  hills  and  swift 
and  rocky  streams,  of  purple  heather  and  of  lonely 
wastes  where  even  today  the  silence  of  the  tarn  and 
the  moorland  is  broken  only  by  the  cry  of  the  wild 
fowl  or  the  bleat  of  the  black  faced  sheep.  Within 
this  border  land,  in  wood  girt  tower  and  crag 
bound  reiver  stronghold,  flanked  by  the  ravines  of 
Teviot  and  Tweed,  of  Ettrick  and  Yarrow, 

"A  hardy  race  who  never  shrank  from  war 
The  Scott,  to  rival  realms  a  bar, 
Here  fixed  his  mountain  home." 

Between  the  Cheviots  and  the  Lammermuirs  lay 
a  thickly  wooded  country  with  cleugh  and  den  closed 
by  precipitous  cliffs,  on  whose  rocky  crests  the 
early  Scotts  built  their  peel  towers  and  castles. 
Here  we  find  the  Lairds  of  Branxholm  holding  a  land 
of  hill  and  dale  and  many  waters  between  Yarrow 
and  Teviot,  upon  a  steep  bank  of  the  latter,  partly 
surrounded  by  the  stream,  being  the  House  of 
Branxholm.  Another  Scott  held  the  wild  lands  of 
Harden. 

"But  what  the  niggard  ground  of  wealth  denied 
From  fields  more  bless'd  his  fearless  arms  supplied." 

Two  miles  from  the  meeting  of  Borthwick  burn 
and  Teviot,  stands  the  House  of  Harden,  on  the 

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History  of  the  Scott  Family  21 

brink  of  the  deep  and  thickly  wooded  den  from 
which  the  name  is  taken.  From  Harden  the  Scott 
country  rises  to  the  lands  of  Deloraine  and  Head- 
shaw,  while  in  the  hills,  above  the  junction  of  the 
Clear  burn  and  the  Rankel  burn  is  the  old  Tower 
of  Buccleuch,  near  the  "cleuch"  where,  as  already 
told,  the  "buck  was  ta'en."  Through  the  Ettrick 
Forest  and  higher  up  on  Ettrick  stands  Thirlestane, 
another  stronghold  of  the  Scotts. 

Such  were  some  of  the  border  fastnesses  from 
which  the  Scotts  of  old  sallied  forth  across  the 
border  to  harry  their  English  neighbors.  On  the 
English  side,  in  Cumberland  and  Northumberland, 
we  find  the  strongholds  of  the  Dacres,  Howards, 
Grahams  and  Percys;  the  border  castles  of  Na- 
worth,  Carlisle,  Norham,  Bamborough  and  Alnwick 
being  some  of  the  stately  seats  which,  today,  re- 
main a  testimony  to  the  respect  paid  by  their  build- 
ers to  the  fighting  qualities  of  the  Scotts  and  like 
unwelcome  visitors  from  over  the  border.  For  cen- 
turies the  Scot  or  the  Englishman  whose  lot  was 
cast  within  marching  or  riding  distance  of  the 
border  was  born  a  natural  enemy  to  his  neighbor 
on  the  other  side  of  the  Cheviots,  Liddell  or  Esk. 
Border  raids  were  the  order  of  the  day  and  no 
greater  security  was  found  for  kye  or  steer  on 
one  side  of  the  border  than  on  the  other.  Scot 
raided  England  and  Englishman  raided  Scotland, 
each  doubtless  feeling  assured  that  he  was  fulfill- 
ing a  patriotic  duty  in  despoiling  those  who  would 
not  only  as  readily  despoil  him,  but,  at  the  same 
time,  were  enemies  of  his  country  and  legitimate 
prey.  Withal,  the  reckless,  law-defying  moss-trooper 
and  reiver  was  a  brave,  loyal  and  fair  fighter.  His 
code  of  morality  was, 


22  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

"The  good  old  rule,  the  simple  plan, 
That  they  should  take  who  had  the  powei 
And  they  should  keep  who  can." 

and  no  disgrace  or  shame  could,  in  his  mind,  attach 
to  a  successful  raid,  well  carried  out  in  accordance 
with  the  tenets  of  the  border.  We  have  told  how 
the  spurs  on  an  empty  platter  gave  warning  of 
the  empty  larder  of  the  Flower  of  Yarrow.  No 
whit  behind  were  the  ladies  on  the  English  side; 
a  naked  sword  lain  on  the  table  being  the  usual 
intimation  from  the  good  wives  of  Cumberland  that 
a  new  supply  of  Scottish  beef  or  Cheviot  mutton 
would  be  of  material  assistance  in  reducing  the 
medieval  equivalent  of  the  high  cost  of  living. 

Fierce  and  bloody  was  the  fighting  usually  ac- 
companying these  border  raids,  and  many  a  Scott 
paid  the  penalty  in  fair  fight,  or  said  his  neck  verse 
on  Harraby  Hill  or  the  old  oak  which  still  over- 
hangs Naworth's  moat.  Notwithstanding  this  al- 
most constant  state  of  warfare  the  men  on  either 
side  do  not  appear  to  have  regarded  each  other 
with  that  personal  enmity  which  might  have  been 
looked  for.  Friendly  intercourse  was  frequent  after 
the  most  bitter  fighting,  and  Froissart  says  that 
"Englishmen  on  the  one  party  and  Scottes  on  the 
other  party,  are  good  men  of  warre ;  for  when  they 
meet  there  is  a  harde  fight  without  sparynge"  but 
that  "whan  they  be  well  beaten  and  that  the  one 
party  hath  obtained  the  victory,  they  then  glorifye 
so  in  their  dedes  of  armes,  and  are  so  joyfull,  that 
such  as  be  taken  they  shall  be  ransomed,  or  that 
they  go  out  of  the  fielde;  so  that  shortly  eche  of 
them  is  so  content  with  other,  that,  at  their  de- 
partynge,  curtyslye  they  will  say,  God  thank  you." 


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Unfortunately  the  lives  thus  lost  at  the  hands  of 
their  hereditary  enemies  were  not  the  only  toll  taken 
by  these  troublous  times.  Bloodshed  was  frequent 
in  the  fighting  with  which  the  Scotts  and  other 
border  clans  occupied  the  rare  intervals  of  peace. 
Remorseless  feuds  sprung  from  jealousies  aroused 
when  one  clan  would  be  thought  to  be  attaining  too 
much  power,  or  arose  from  quarrels  and  insults 
only  to  be  wiped  out  by  the  death  of  the  offender. 
To  avenge  such  a  death  was  a  matter  of  honor 
with  the  Scott  family,  all  border  clans  being  alike 
in  their  punctilious  respect  to  the  lex  talionis.  Of 
such  a  nature  was  the  feud  between  the  House  of 
Scott  and  the  House  of  Ker  of  Cessford.  It  is 
not  known  how  the  feud  between  the  two  clans  arose, 
but  the  enmity  of  the  Scotts  and  Kers  had  long 
been  smoldering,  when  in  1526,  during  a  Justice 
Court  held  at  Jedburgh,  the  boy  King,  James  V, 
secretly  wrote  to  Sir  Walter  Scott,  "Wicked  Wat 
of  Branxholm,"  bidding  Sir  Walter  gather  the 
Scotts  at  Melrose  to  free  him  from  the  power  of 
Douglas,  Earl  of  Angus,  who  had  wed  his  widowed 
mother.  From  Jedburgh  the  King  rode  to  Melrose, 
where,  shortly  after  the  escort  of  Kers  and  Howes 
had  taken  their  leave,  the  Scotts  under  Sir  Walter 
arrived  a  thousand  strong.  A  fierce  battle  with 
Douglas  and  his  men  was  ended  by  the  unexpected 
appearance  on  the  field  of  the  returned  Kers  and 
Howes;  the  Laird  of  Buccleuch  and  his  force  being 
compelled  to  flee,  "followed  furiouslie"  by  the  Kers. 
At  a  rock,  to  this  day  known  by  the  name  of  'Turn 
Again,"  Buccleuch's  men  rallied,  and  here  Ker  of 
Cessford  was  slain  and  the  chase  seems  to  have 
ceased.  But  in  consequence  of  this  battle  there 


24  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

-ensued  a  deadly  feud  between  the  names  of  Scott 
and  Ker,  which  raged  for  many  years  upon  the 
borders.  In  the  year  1535  we  find  Sir  Walter  im- 
prisoned for  levying  war  upon  the  Kers,  and  in 
1552  the  Kers  carried  "the  furies  of  the  border 
var"  to  the  streets  of  Edinburgh  itself,  where,  in 
the  High  Street,  old  Sir  Walter  was  set  upon  by 
a  band  of  Kers  and  foully  murdered.  Quoting  from 
the  words  of  another  Sir  Walter: 

"When  the  streets  of  high  Dunedin, 
Saw  lances  gleam  and  falchions  redden, 
And  heard  the  slogan's  deadly  yell; 
Then  the  chief  of  Branksome  fell." 


"While  Cessford  owns  the  rule  of  Carr, 
While  Ettrick  boasts  the  line  of  Scott; 
The  slaughtered  chiefs,  the  mortal  jar, 
The  havoc  of  the  feudal  war; 
Shall  never,  never  be  forgot." 

Many  a  Scott  and  many  a  Ker  paid  with  their 
lives  for  the  deaths  of  Ker  of  Cessford  and  Scott 
of  Buccleuch  before  the  feud  was  ended;  for  even 
this  fierce  feud  had  an  end  and  the  time  came 
-when  as  told  in  Birch's  Memorials  "The  fear  of 
the  general  trouble  had  reconciled  them,  and  the 
injuries  which  they  thought  to  have  committed 
against  each  other  were  now  transferred  upon  Eng- 
land," and  each  clan  "undertook  more  hazardous  en- 
terprises against  the  enemy  than  they  would  have 
done  if  they  had  been  at  concord  together." 

Other  feuds  of  the  Scotts  included  that  with  the 
Elliot  clan,  in  consequence  of  the  death  of  a  Scott, 
•slain  by  an  Elliot  in  1564.  Vindictively  and  furi- 
ously was  this  quarrel  pursued,  the  Scotts  avenging 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  25 

the  death  upon  the  Elliots,  and  the  Elliots  returning 
blow  for  blow.  However,  as  in  the  case  of  the 
Cessford  feud,  the  common  cause  against  their 
neighbors  on  the  English  side  of  the  border  seems 
to  have  had  the  effect  of  a  peace-maker,  for  in  1601 
the  Warden  of  the  Marches  makes  complaint  that 
"the  Scotts  and  Elliots  have  again  been  spoiling 
the  Grahams." 

"All  is  dishonorabell  quhair  there  is  not  eie  for 
eie  and  tuith  for  tuith,"  said  Alexander  Napier, 
referring  to  another  feud.  In  1600,  Scott  of  Bow- 
hill  was  told  by  Archibald  Napier  of  Merchiston 
that  one  of  his  horses  had  been  stolen.  Presumably 
the  cap  fitted,  for  Bowhill  at  once  drew  his  sword 
and  called  on  young  Napier  to  fight.  The  latter, 
intending  no  insult,  and  surprised  at  the  anger 
of  his  friend,  endeavored  to  avoid  a  meeting,  but 
was  eventually  compelled  to  fight  the  duel  forced 
upon  him.  Scott  was  slain  and  to  avenge  his  death, 
his  brothers,  and  other  Scotts,  waylaid  Napier  near 
Edinburgh  and  murdered  him.  The  property  of 
the  slayers  was  declared  forfeit  as  rebels,  until 
Scott  of  Buccleuch,  the  chief  of  their  clan,  pro- 
posed that  they  obtain  pardon  by  payment  to  the 
Napier  family  of  One  thousand  pounds  as  compensa- 
tion for  the  murder.  This  matter  of  a  price  for 
the  slaughter  of  a  friend  caused  Alexander  Napier 
to  express  his  opinion  as  above.  Later  in  1699, 
William  Scott  of  Thirlestane  married  Margaret, 
Baroness  Napier  of  Merchiston,  and  the  present 
Lord  Napier  and  Ettrick  takes  descent  from  the 
two  families. 

The  quarrel  between  the  Scotts  and  the  Charltons 
of  Tynedale,  in  Northumberland,  may  also  more 


26  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

properly  be  reckoned  a  feud,  rather  than  ordinary 
border  warfare.  This  vendetta  of  Buceleuch's, 
which  lasted  through  several  generations,  appears 
to  have  had  its  origin  from  the  fact  that  "long 
synce  in  warr  tyme  they  took  awaye  his  grand- 
father's shworde  and  wold  never  lett  him  have  itt 
synce."  And  they  never  did ;  the  "shworde"  remains 
at  Hesleyside  in  North  Tynedale. 

Sir  John  Scott  of  Thirlestane,  an  ancestor  of 
William  Scott  who  married  the  Baroness  Napier, 
was  granted  arms  and  motto,  as  a  pledge  and  token 
of  the  "guid  will  and  kyndness"  of  King  James  V. 
Sir  John  was  in  possession  of  the  estates  of  Thirles- 
tane and  Gamescleugh  when,  in  June  1542,  King 
James  assembled  his  nobility  and  their  feudal  re- 
tainers at  Fala  Moor,  with  the  intention  of  invad- 
ing England  in  retaliation  for  the  wrecking  of 
an  abbey  by  the  forces  of  the  English  King,  Henry. 
To  the  disappointment  of  King  James,  his  nobles 
obstinately  refused  to  follow  him  over  the  border, 
Sir  John  Scott  alone  declaring  himself  ready  to 
follow  the  King  wherever  he  should  lead,  and  with 
his  followers  ranged  himself  under  the  King's  ban- 
ner. For  this  loyal  conduct  the  King  did  "com- 
mand and  charge  our  lion  herauld"  to  give  and 
grant  to  the  family  of  Sir  John  a  charter  of  arms, 
entitling  them  to  bear  "ane  border  of  ffleure  de  lises 
about  his  coate  of  armes,  sik  as  is  on  our  royal 
banner,"  with  a  bundle  of  spears  for  the  crest  and 
the  motto  "Ready,  aye  ready." 

'And  hence,  in  fair  remembrance  worn, 
Yon  sheaf  of  spears  his  crest  has  borne; 
Hence  his  high  motto  shines  reveal'd 
"Ready,  aye  ready"  for  the  field.' 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  27 

In  the  reign  of  James  I  of  Scotland  (1406-1437), 
Sir  William  Scott  of  Buccleuch  exchanged,  with 
Sir  Thomas  Inglis,  the  estate  of  Murdieston,  in  Lan- 
arkshire, for  one-half  of  the  barony  of  Branxholm,  or 
Branksome,  lying  upon  the  Teviot,  about  three  miles 
above  the  border  town  of  Hawick.  The  remaining 
half  of  the  barony  was,  in  1443,  granted  by 
James  II  to  Sir  Walter  Scott  and  Sir  David,  his 
son,  as  a  reward  for  their  services  to  the  King, 
against  the  house  of  Douglas,  with  whom  King 
James  had  been  contending  for  the  throne.  Branx- 
holm became  the  principal  seat  of  the  family  of 
Scott  of  Buccleuch,  and  the  "ower  word"  or  gather- 
ing cry  of  the  clan  "Mount  for  Branxholm."  The 
castle  was  enlarged  and  strengthened  by  Sir  David 
Scott  the  grandson  of  Sir  William.  In  1570  it  was 
temporarily  destroyed  by  the  then  Laird  under  the 
following  circumstances.  The  Earl  of  Northumber- 
land, having  assembled  a  strong  force  at  Wark- 
worth,  crossed  the  border  and  proceeded  up  the 
Valley  of  the  Teviot  to  lay  waste  the  lands  of 
Branxholm.  He  left  not  "one  house,  one  stak  of 
corne,  nor  one  shyef,  without  the  gates  of  the 
said  Lord  Buclough  unburnt."  Buccleuch,  however, 
rather  than  allow  the  castle  to  be  despoiled  by  the 
English,  himself  burned  down  the  home  of  his  an- 
cestors. This  foray  of  the  Earl  of  Northumberland 
was  undertaken  on  behalf  of  the  English  Queen, 
Elizabeth,  who  had  been  provoked  by  the  frequent 
raids  of  Buccleuch  and  especially  by  his  espousal  of 
the  cause  of  Queen  Mary.  Buccleuch  quickly  re- 
taliated; for,  with  other  border  chiefs,  he  invaded 
Northumberland  and  laying  waste  the  country,  re- 
turned laden  with  spoil.  He  also,  at  once  com- 


28  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

menced  the  rebuilding  and  enlarging  of  Branxholm ; 
which  work  being  uncompleted  on  his  death  in 
1574,  was  finished  by  his  widow,  Dame  Margaret  of 
Douglas.  The  following  inscriptions  still  preserve 
their  memory.  Upon  a  stone,  bearing  the  arms  of 
Buccleuch,  this  legend  appears,  "Sir  W.  Scott,  of 
Branxheim,  Knyt,  oe  of  Sir  William  Scott  of  Kirk- 
urd,  Knyt,  began  ye  work  upon  ye  24  of  March, 
1571  zier  quha  departit  at  God's  pleisour  ye  17th 
April,  1574"  and  on  a  similar  compartment  are 
sculptured  the  arms  of  Douglas,  with  this  inscrip- 
tion "Dame  Margaret  Douglas  his  spous  completit 
the  forsaid  work  in  October  1576."  The  Lairds  of 
Buccleuch  observed  much  baronial  magnificence  at 
Branxholm,  maintaining  a  large  household,  both 
probably  from  a  desire  for  splendor,  and  on  ac- 
count of  their  border  situation  necessitating  a 
strong  body  of  retainers. 

In  1596  Sir  Walter  Scott,  the  then  Laird  of 
Buccleuch,  numbered  among  his  many  retainers  a 
celebrated  border  raider,  Kinmont  Willie.  In  March 
of  that  year,  a  truce  having  been  called  with  the 
English  for  the  purpose  of  a  meeting  of  the  War- 
dens of  the  Marches,  Buccleuch,  being  Warden  of 
Liddesdale,  attended  the  meeting  near  Kershope- 
foot,  Kinmont  Willie  with  other  retainers  accom- 
panying him.  Kinmont's  frequent  and  successful 
raids  had  made  him  an  object  of  much  dislike  to 
the  English,  and  when  riding  home  from  the  meet- 
ing he  was  surprised  and  taken  prisoner  by  Lord 
Scrope's  men,  in  direct  violation  of  the  border  law 
granting  a  full  day's  immunity  to  all  present  at  a 
Warden's  meeting  on  a  day  of  truce.  Buccleuch 
realized  that  he  must  strike  at  once  or  Kinmont 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  29 

Willie  would  hang  at  Carlisle.  He  gathered  the 
Scotts,  Armstrongs,  Elliots  and  Graemes,  and  al- 
though he  called  for  only  the  younger  sons  on  such 
a  forlorn  hope,  Auld  Wat  of  Harden  and  other  elder 
Scotts  rode  with  their  chief.  They  met  at  Einmont 
Willie's  tower,  ten  miles  north  of  Carlisle,  and  in 
a  storm  of  wind  and  sleet,  with  scaling  ladders 
stormed  the  strongly  fortified  castle  of  Carlisle, 
carrying  out  Kinmont  Willie,  fetters  and  all.  King 
James  was  compelled  to  accede  to  the  constant  de- 
mands of  Queen  Elizabeth  of  England  for  the  pun- 
ishment of  Buccleuch  who  was  imprisoned  by  the 
English  Queen.  Some  two  years  after  his  imprison- 
ment Buccleuch  was  asked  by  the  Queen  "How 
dared  you  undertake  an  enterprise  so  desperate  and 
presumptous?"  "Dared?"  replied  Buccleuch,  "what 
is  it  that  a  man  dares  not  do?"  "With  ten  thou- 
sand such  men,"  said  Elizabeth,  "our  brother  of 
Scotland  might  shake  the  firmest  crown  in  Europe." 
The  castle  of  Branxholm,  and  its  immediate 
neighborhood,  is  the  scene  of  the  "Lay  of  the 
Last  Minstrel,"  in  which  is  described  the  trial  by 
single  combat  between  Richard  Musgrave  and  the 
pseudo  William  Scott  of  Deloraine. 


CHAPTER  m. 

HERE  are  numerous  branches  of  the 
family  of  Scott.  Reference  having  al- 
ready been  made  in  the  preceding  chap- 
ters to  the  Scotts  of  Buccleuch  and  the 
Scotts  of  Harden,  the  following  branches  may  also 
be  mentioned. 

The  Scotts  of  Balwearie  trace  their  descent  from 
Sir  Michael  Scott  who  was  knighted  by  Alexan- 
der II,  and  was  one  of  the  assize  upon  a  perambu- 
lation of  the  boundary  between  the  monastery  of 
Dunfermline  and  the  lands  of  Dundaff  in  1231.  He 
obtained  the  estates  of  Balwearie  on  his  marriage 
with  the  daughter  and  sole  heiress  of  Sir  Richard 
Balwearie  of  Balwearie  in  the  parish  of  Abbots- 
hall.  His  son,  Sir  Michael,  the  famous  wizard,  of 
whom  we  have  already  told,  had  two  sons,  Sir 
Henry  and  Duncan,  the  latter  being  the  owner  of 
lands  in  Forfarshire  and  ancestor  of  the  Scotts  in 
the  North  of  Scotland.  The  elder,  Sir  Henry, 
died  early  in  the  reign  of  David  II  (1329-1371). 
His  son,  Sir  Andrew  Scott,  was  killed  at  the  taking 
of  Berwick  by  the  Scots  in  1355,  leaving  an  infant 
son,  afterwards  Sir  William,  who  died  towards  the 
end  of  the  reign  of  Robert  III.  Sir  Michael,  his 
son,  was  hostage  for  James  I  in  1424  and  died 
in  the  following  reign.  Sir  Michael's  son,  Sir 
William,  married  Isabel,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Mon- 
crief  of  that  ilk,  and  with  one  daughter  had  two 
sons,  Sir  William  who  succeeded  him  and  Alex- 
ander Scott  of  Fingask,  Perthshire.  The  elder  son, 

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in  February  1509,  obtained  a  crown  charter  of  the 
lands  of  Strathmiglo,  Fifeshire.  The  estate  of 
Strathmiglo  had  been  held  by  the  Scotts  of  Bal- 
wearie,  under  the  Earls  of  Fife,  from  about  the 
year  1251,  and  after  the  forfeiture  of  Murdo,  Duke 
of  Albany,  in  1424  under  the  crown.  Sir  William 
accompanied  James  IV  on  his  unfortunate  expedition 
into  England  in  September  1513,  and  being  taken 
prisoner  at  Flodden  was  obliged  to  sell  part  of  his 
estates  to  pay  his  ransom.  Later  he  was  on  two 
occasions  appointed  a  commissioner  for  effecting 
a  treaty  of  peace  with  England.  Sir  William  was 
nominated  the  first  Senator,  on  the  temporal  side, 
on  the  institution  of  the  College  of  Justice  in  Scot- 
land on  13th  May  1532.  He  died  shortly  after  his 
appointment,  leaving  two  sons,  Sir  William  and 
Thomas.  The  latter  obtained  a  charter  of  the  lands 
of  Pitgorno  in  1526,  and  was  named  a  Senator  in 
his  father's  place  in  November  1532.  He  was 
appointed  Justice  Clerk  by  King  James  V  in  1585 
and  died  in  1539.  The  elder  son,  Sir  William 
Scott,  married  Isabel,  daughter  of  Lord  Lindsay  of 
the  Byres  and  had  two  sons,  Sir  William  and 
Andrew,  ancestor  of  the  Scotts  of  Ancrum.  Sir 
William  had  two  sons,  Michael,  who  died  in  the 
lifetime  of  his  father  and  Sir  William,  who  suc- 
ceeded as  Laird  of  Balwearie  and  Strathmiglo.  His 
son,  Sir  James,  was  one  of  the  twelve  gentlemen 
knighted  by  James  VI  at  the  coronation  of  his 
Queen,  Anne  of  Denmark,  in  1590.  During  his 
time  the  barony  of  Strathmiglo  was  at  its  greatest, 
but  with  him  the  wealth  and  dignity  of  the  family 
came  to  an  end.  He  was  involved  with  the  Earls 
of  Angus,  Errol  and  Huntly  in  their  various  re- 


32  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

bellions  against  James  VI  and  was  also  connected 
with  the  turbulent  Earl  of  Bothwell.  He  was  re- 
peatedly fined  for  assistance  given  to  this  noble- 
man in  his  attempts  to  gain  possession  of  the 
King's  person  between  1591  and  1594;  and  doubt- 
less also  paid  heavily  to  the  needy  courtiers  of  the 
King.  He  was  obliged,  from  time  to  time,  to  sell 
portions  of  his  estate,  until  in  1600  the  whole 
barony  of  Strathmiglo  was  disposed  of,  excepting 
the  tower  with  the  land  and  village  adjoining. 
The  remaining  portions  of  the  barony  were  sold 
either  immediately  before  or  after  his  death.  He 
had  two  sons,  William  and  James.  The  former 
predeceased  his  father,  leaving  a  son,  Walter,  who 
having  been  deprived  of  the  estates  through  the 
doings  of  his  grandfather,  entered  the  army  and 
died  unmarried  in  Flanders,  during  the  reign  of 
Charles  I.  James,  the  second  son,  purchased  the 
lands  of  Logie  in  Forfarshire  and  was  the  ancestor 
of  several  families  of  Scott  in  that  part  of  Scot- 
land. His  son,  also  James,  acquired  considerable 
landed  property  and  was  enabled  to  leave  an  estate 
to  each  of  his  sons;  James  Scott  of  Logie,  Robert 
Scott  of  Benholme,  Hercules  Scott  of  Brotherton, 
Patrick  Scott  of  Craig,  John  and  David. 

The  Scotts  of  Ancrum,  Roxburghshire,  descend 
from  Andrew,  the  younger  of  the  two  sons  of  Sir 
William  Scott  above  mentioned.  This  Andrew  Scott 
lived  in  the  time  of  Queen  Mary  and  received  from 
his  father  the  estates  of  Glendoich  as  life  tenant, 
the  estates  to  revert  to  the  family  on  his  death. 
He  was  also  in  possession  of  the  lands  of  Kirkstyle, 
Perthshire.  His  great-grandson,  Patrick  Scott,  who 
lived  in  the  reign  of  James  VI,  sold  Kirkstyle  and 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  33 

purchased  Langshaw  in  the  south  of  Scotland,  and 
afterwards  acquired  the  estates  of  Ancrum.  His 
son,  Sir  John  Scott,  obtained  a  charter  under  the 
Great  Seal,  in  1670,  of  the  lands  and  Barony  of 
Ancrum  and  was  created  a  Baronet  in  1671. 

Reference  has  been  made  in  Chapter  I  to  the 
Scotts  of  Harden.  From  Hugh,  the  third  son  of 
Wat  of  Harden  and  his  wife,  the  Flower  of  Yar- 
row, the  Scotts  of  Gala  take  descent.  The  Scotts 
of  Synton  are  descended  from  Francis,  the  fourth 
son,  who  married  Isabel,  sister  of  Sir  Walter  Scott 
of  Whitstead. 

The  Scotts  of  Thirlestane,  now  represented  by 
Lord  Napier,  are  descended  from  the  Scotts  of 
Howpaisley,  who  got  the  estate  of  Thirlestane  from 
the  Abbacy  of  Melrose.  It  has  already  been  told 
how  Sir  John  Scott  of  Thirlestane  earned  arms, 
crest  and  motto.  From  his  third  son  Andrew  (or 
Arthur)  are  descended  the  families  of  Newburgh 
and  Ravelburn. 

The  Scotts  of  Raeburn,  as  mentioned  in  Chap- 
ter I,  are  descended  from  Walter,  third  son  of  Sir 
William  Scott,  third  Laird  of  Harden. 

The  Scotts  of  Tushielaw  in  Ettrick  were  at  one 
time  a  powerful  section  of  the  clan  Scott;  and  like 
all  the  race,  were  busy  raiders  and  mosstroopers. 
Their  ancient  Tower  of  Tushielaw  is  celebrated  in 
minstrelsy  and  tradition.  Adam  Scott  of  Tushie- 
law, one  of  the  most  famous  of  their  chiefs,  was 
known  as  the  "King  of  the  Thieves,"  or  the  "King  of 
the  Border."  His  reiving  and  raiding  proclivities 
aroused  the  ire  of  James  V,  who,  in  1528,  made 
proclamation  to  all  lords,  barons  and  gentlemen, 
that  they  should  "compear  at  Edinburgh  with  a 


34  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

month's  victuals,"  to  accompany  him  on  an  expedi- 
tion to  "danton  the  thieves  of  Teviotdale,  Annan- 
dale  and  Liddisdale."  They  seized  Scott  of  Tushie- 
law  one  morning  before  breakfast  and  summarily 
hung  him  on  an  ash  tree  in  front  of  his  strong- 
hold. The  ash  tree  is  said  to  be  still  standing 
and  is  still  called  "Gallows  Tree." 

The  Scotts  of  Malleny,  Midlothian,  branched  off 
from  the  house  of  Murdieston,  before  the  ancestor 
of  the  Buccleuchs  exchanged  that  estate  for  half  the 
barony  of  Branxholm.  James  Scott  of  Scotsloch 
was  the  first  of  the  family  to  settle  in  Midlothian, 
during  the  reign  of  Queen  Mary.  His  son,  Law- 
rence Scott  of  Harprig,  was  clerk  to  the  Privy 
Council  in  the  reign  of  Charles  I.  He  had  three 
sons,  William,  his  heir,  James  of  Bonnytoun  and 
Lawrence,  ancestor  of  the  Scotts  of  Bavelaw.  The 
eldest,  William,  was  knighted  by  Charles  I  in  1641, 
and  in  June  1649  was  appointed  one  of  the  Lords 
Ordinary  of  Sessions,  taking  the  title  of  Lord  Clerk- 
ington.  His  son  John  inherited  from  his  father  the 
lands  and  Barony  of  Malleny,  which  became  the 
chief  title  of  this  branch  of  the  Scott  family.  Gen- 
eral Thomas  Scott,  a  scion  of  the  Malleny  family 
born  in  1745  served,  as  Captain,  with  his  regiment 
in  America  from  1776  to  1788  and  on  his  return 
to  Europe  accompanied  the  Duke  of  York  to 
Flanders  to  oppose  the  French  revolutionary  forces. 
He  saw  much  service  and  died  at  the  age  of  96, 
in  1841. 

The  Scotts  of  Duninald,  in  the  Parish  of  Craig, 
Forfarshire,  descended  from  Patrick  Scott  of  Craig, 
born  in  1623,  the  son  of  James  Scott  of  Logic  and 
a  descendant  of  the  Scotts  of  Balwearie.  At  the 
beginning  of  the  18th  century,  the  adjoining  estates 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  35 

of  Duninald,  Usan  and  Rossie  were  in  the  posses- 
sion of  three  brothers  of  the  name  of  Scott,  who 
had  married  three  sisters,  heiresses  of  these  estates. 
Upon  the  death  of  two  of  these  brothers,  the  owners 
of  Duninald  and  Usan,  Patrick  Scott  of  Rossie, 
the  remaining  brother,  became  possessed  of  the 
three  estates.  His  son,  Robert,  born  in  1705,  was 
Member  of  Parliament  for  Forfarshire  and  repre- 
sented that  constituency  for  many  years.  It  is  told 
of  him  that  during  the  1745  rising,  he  remained 
a  faithful  adherent  to  King  George,  and  that  when 
Prince  Charlie's  men  arrived  in  Montrose,  a  party 
of  them  went  to  Duninald  House,  threatening  him 
with  death.  The  entreaties  of  his  wife,  Ann  Mid- 
dleton  of  Seton,  described  as  a  woman  of  fine  ap- 
pearance and  manner,  prevailed  to  save  his  life  and 
he  was  carried  off  a  prisoner  to  the  Montrose  tol- 
booth.  He  was  set  free  on  the  arrival  of  the  Duke 
of  Cumberland  and  died  in  1780.  He  son,  David 
Scott  of  Duninald,  married  Louisa  Jervis,  a  widow, 
the  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  William  Delagard, 
and  died  in  1805  leaving  one  son,  David  and  three 
daughters.  Elizabeth,  the  other  sister  and  co-heiress 
of  William  Delagard,  married  James  Sibbald  of  Sill- 
wood  Park,  Sussex,  who  was  created  a  Baronet  in 
1806.  He  died  without  issue  in  1819,  David  Scott 
of  Duninald,  the  son  of  his  wife's  sister,  becoming 
heir  to  the  title  as  Sir  David  Scott,  second  Baronet 
of  Sillwood  Park. 

The  Scotts  of  Benholme,  Forfarshire,  and  the 
Scotts  of  Brotherton,  Kincardineshire,  are  both 
branches  of  the  family  of  Scott  of  Logic ;  the  former 
from  Robert,  the  second  son,  and  the  latter  from 
Hercules,  the  third  son  of  James  Scott  of  Logie. 


36  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Shortly  before  embarking  at  Montrose  for  France 
in  1716,  the  Chevalier  St.  George,  the  Stuart  claim- 
ant of  the  throne,  was  concealed  in  the  garden  of 
Brotherton,  and  the  last  night  the  Chevalier  spent 
in  Scotland,  he  slept  in  the  house  of  Scott  of  Logic. 
The  Scotts  of  Scotstarvet  take  descent  from 
David  the  second  son  of  Sir  David  Scott,  the  eleventh 
generation  of  the  house  of  Buccleuch  in  the  male 
line.  David  Scott,  known  as  of  Allanbaugh  and 
Whitchester,  lived  in  the  reigns  of  James  IV  and  V, 
and  died  in  1530  leaving  three  sons,  Robert,  Alex- 
ander and  James.  The  youngest  entered  the  Church, 
becoming  Provost  of  Corstophine  and  a  Ltird  of  Ses- 
sions on  the  spiritual  side,  on  the  institution  of  that 
court  in  Scotland.  Sir  Alexander  Scott,  the  second 
son,  was  appointed  Vice  Register  of  Scotland  by 
King  James  V  in  1534,  and  died  in  1540.  His  son, 
Robert  Scott,  who  owned  the  lands  of  Knightspottie, 
became  Clerk  of  the  Parliament  and  Director  of 
the  Chancery  in  1579.  He  had  one  daughter  and 
two  sons,  Robert  and  James  of  Vogrie.  He  re- 
signed the  office  of  Director  of  the  Chancery,  first 
in  favor  of  his  elder  son  Robert,  who  predeceased 
him  in  1588,  and  secondly  in  favor  of  his  step- 
son, Sir  William  Scott  of  Ardross,  to  be  held  until 
his  grandson  John,  the  son  of  Robert,  came  of  age. 
John,  who  later  became  the  celebrated  Sir  John 
Scott  of  Scotstarvet,  was  only  seven  years  of  age 
on  the  death  of  his  grandfather  in  1592.  On  attain- 
ing his  majority,  John  obtained  the  office  of  Director 
of  the  Chancery.  By  a  charter  dated  1611,  he  was 
granted  the  lands  of  Tarvet  in  Fif eshire,  the  name 
of  which  he  changed  to  Scotstarvet.  Appointed  of 
the  Privy  Council  of  King  James  VI,  he  was  knighted 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  37 

by  that  King  in  1617  and  admitted  an  Extraordinary 
Lord  of  Session  in  1629,  taking  the  judicial  title 
of  Lord  Scotstarvet.  He  was  one  of  the  many  Lairds 
and  lawyers  of  Scotland,  who  accepted  the  covenant 
and  in  November  1638  he  declined  to  sign  the  King's 
confession.  In  1640  he  was  named  one  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Estates  for  the  defence  of  the  realm,  and 
in  1641  the  King  created  him  a  Judge  ad  vitam  aut 
culpam.  On  the  occasion  of  the  war  with  England, 
he  served  on  the  War  Committee  in  1648  and  1649, 
but  was  deprived  of  both  the  office  of  Judge  and 
Director  of  Chancery  during  the  Commonwealth. 
He  made  many  appeals  to  be  restored  to  the  latter 
office,  but  Cromwell,  in  1652,  bestowed  it  on  Jeffrey 
who  held  it  until  the  Restoration.  Through  General 
Monck,  Scott  again  appealed  to  the  Protector  for 
the  reversion  of  the  office  if  Jeffrey  died.  Instead 
of  reinstatement,  Cromwell,  in  1654,  fined  him 
£1,500,  for  his  conduct  in  the  war.  Further,  his 
correspondence  with  Cromwell  created  a  very  un- 
favorable impression  on  the  Royalists,  who,  instead 
of  appointing  him  to  office  on  the  Restoration,  fined 
him  £500.  He  retired  to  Scotstarvet,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  literary  work  and  died  in  1670. 

A  lady  of  the  Scotstarvet  family  deserves  men- 
tion, Majory,  the  daughter  of  David  Scott  of  Scots- 
tarvet, and  great-granddaughter  of  the  celebrated 
Sir  John.  It  has  been  said,  that  on  her  marriage 
with  Lord  Stormont  she  took  with  her  the  ability 
of  the  house,  as  she  produced  an  illustrious  Ohief 
Justice,  known  as  Silver  Tongue  Murray,  who,  it 
was  said,  on  the  father's  side  sprung  from  an  or- 
dinary Scottish  peer — the  eleventh  of  fourteen  chil- 
dren, raised  on  oatmeal  porridge. 


88  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

The  Scotts  of  Gala,  Roxburghshire,  are  descended 
from  Hugh,  the  third  son  of  Walter  Scott  of  Harden, 
"Auld  Wat,"  and  his  wife  the  Flower  of  Yarrow. 
Hugh  Scott  lived  in  the  reigns  of  James  I  and 
Charles  I,  being  known  as  Scott  of  Deuchar.  He 
married  Jean,  eldest  daughter  of  Sir  James  Hop- 
Pringle  of  Galashiels,  and  had  several  sons,  James, 
his  heir,  Walter,  George,  the  progenitor  of  the  Scotts 
of  Auchty-Donald,  John  and  David.  Hugh  Scott 
died  in  1640  and  his  eldest  son,  James,  obtained  a 
charter,  dated  9th  June  1640,  of  the  lands  and 
Barony  of  Gala.  A  descendant,  John  Scott  of  Gala, 
was  the  intimate  friend  of  his  kinsman  Sir  Walter 
Scott  and  accompanied  him  on  his  visit  to  the  field 
of  Waterloo.  His  reminiscences  of  Sir  Walter  are 
published  in  Lockhart's  Life  of  Scott. 

The  Scotts  of  Hassendean,  Roxburghshire,  traced 
descent  from  David  Scott,  who  lived  in  the  middle 
part  of  the  15th  century.  He  was  the  eldest  son 
of  Sir  William  Scott  of  Kirkurd  who,  as  before  told, 
exchanged  Murdieston  for  Branxholm.  A  Scott  of 
Hassendean,  Sir  Alexander,  fell  at  the  battle  of 
Flodden,  1513,  and  among  the  border  Barons  who 
in  1530  neglected  to  fulfill  their  bonds,  there  appears 
a  William  Scott  of  Hassendean.  It  is  also  on  record 
that  in  1564,  David  Scott,  Laird  of  Hassendean,  was 
slain  by  William  Elliot  of  Horsliehill.  It  is  not 
known  at  what  date  the  male  line  of  this  branch 
of  the  Scott  family  failed,  but  possibly  on  the  death 
of  the  said  David  Scott. 

One  of  the  most  ancient  branches  of  the  Scotts 
was  that  of  Synton,  descended  from  Walter  Scott 
of  Synton,  who  lived  in  the  reigns  of  Robert  II 
and  III.  George  Scott  was  the  last  of  the  original 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  39 

family  styled  Synton,  but,  as  we  have  seen,  from 
them  are  descended  the  Harden  branch  and  from 
the  Synton  family  came  also  the  Scotts  of  Sachells. 

Sir  William  Scott,  the  founder  of  the  Kentish 
family  of  Scots  Hall,  was  the  son  of  John  Scott, 
seneschal  of  the  manor  of  Brabourne,  Kent.  Sir 
William  was  a  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas,  ap- 
pointed 1336,  and  knighted  on  the  day  Edward  the 
Black  Prince  was  created  Duke  of  Cornwall.  He 
died  in  1350.  The  tradition  is  that  Sir  William  was 
descended  from  a  younger  brother  of  John  de  Baliol, 
King  of  Scotland  and  of  Alexander  de  Baliol,  Lord 
of  Chilham,  Kent.  Family  records  show  that  in 
1402,  Peter  de  Coumbe  made  a  settlement  of  the 
Manor  of  Coumbe  in  Brabourne,  on  William  Scott 
who  died  in  1434.  He  is  credited  with  the  building 
of  the  Hall,  afterwards  known  as  Scots  Hall,  and 
had  two  sons,  John  and  William.  The  latter,  Lord 
of  the  Manor  of  Woolstan  and  founded  of  the  family 
of  Scott  of  Chigwell,  died  in  1491.  The  elder,  Sir 
John,  Sheriff  of  Kent  in  1460,  was  knighted  and 
made  Comptroller  of  the  Household  by  Edward  IV 
in  1461.  He  was  also  Lieutenant  of  Dover  Castle, 
Warden  of  the  Cinque  Ports  and  Marshal  of  Calais. 
He  died  on  17th  October  1489. 

Other  branches  of  the  family  of  Scott  include 
the  Scotts  of  Wauchope,  descended  from  Howcleuch 
and  Crumbaugh,  whose  memorials  are  at  Hawick. 
Walter  Scott  of  Wauchope  was  a  friend  of  the  poet 
Burns.  Also  the  Scotts  of  Whitehaugh  and  the 
Scotts  of  Burnfoot,  one  of  whom  acquired  the  lands 
of  Headshaw  by  marriage.  Also  the  Scotts  of  Mid- 
dlestead,  Kirkhouse,  Huntly,  Whitslade  and  Todrig. 

The  story  of  two  brothers  of  the  name  of  Scott, 


40  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

sons  of  a  coal  fitter  at  Newcastle,  both  of  whom  be- 
came Judges  and  both  of  whom  were  raised  to  the 
peerage,  is  worthy  of  a  place  in  any  record  of  the 
family  whose  name  they  bore.  Conjecture  has  en- 
deavored to  connect  these  brothers  with  the  house 
of  Scott  of  Balwearie,  but  beyond  the  name,  nothing 
but  tradition  indicates  such  descent. 

John  Scott,  Baron  and  afterwards  Earl  of  Eldon, 
Lord  High  Chancellor  of  England  and  William  Scott, 
Baron  Stowell,  his  elder  brother,  were  sons  of 
William  Scott,  who  began  life  as  apprentice  to,  and 
later  became  principal  in,  a  coal  fitter's  business  at 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.  William  was  born  at  He- 
worth,  in  the  County  of  Durham,  on  17th  October 
1745 ;  John  at  Newcastle  on  4th  June  1751 ;  and  both 
boys  were  scholars  at  the  old  Grammar  School  at 
Newcastle.  William  obtained  a  Durham  fellowship 
at  University  College,  Oxford,  but  it  was  his  father's 
intention  to  apprentice  John  to  his  own  business. 
He,  however,  followed  his  brother  to  Oxford,  where 
he  was  entered  at  University  College  as  a  com- 
moner, on  May  15th  1766,  his  purpose  then  being 
to  study  for  the  Church,  with  a  view  to  obtain  a 
college  living.  He  graduated  B.  A.  in  1770  and  in 
1771  won  the  English  Essay  prize.  Not  until  after 
his  marriage  did  John  Scott  turn  his  attention  to 
the  study  of  the  law,  the  summit  of  which  profession 
he  was  destined  to  attain.  He  married  Elizabeth, 
the  beautiful  daughter  of  a  Newcastle  banker,  Mr. 
Aubone  Surtees.  Young  Scott's  suit  was  strongly 
opposed  by  Mr.  Surtees  who  forbade  the  marriage, 
but  on  the  night  of  November  18th  1772,  John  Scott 
carried  off  the  lady  across  the  border  to  Blackshiels, 
where  the  marriage  took  place  the  following  day. 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  41 

He  became  a  student  at  the  Middle  Temple  in  Jan- 
uary 1773  and  in  February  of  that  year  took  the 
degree  of  M.  A.  at  Oxford.  In  1776  he  was  called 
to  the  bar,  practicing  in  London  and  on  the  Northern 
Circuit.  His  father  died  in  the  same  year,  leaving 
him  a  legacy  of  £1,000  over  and  above  £2,000  which 
he  had  already  received.  His  practice  in  London 
increased  slowly,  but  in  1780  his  prospects  were 
suddenly  improved  by  his  appearance  in  the  cele- 
brated case  of  Ackroyd  v.  Smithson,  which  became 
a  leading  case.  Losing  his  point  in  the  lower  court, 
Scott  successfully  argued  it  on  appeal  before  Lord 
Thurlow.  He  also  appeared  as  counsel  in  several 
election  petitions,  notably  the  Clitheroe  petition.  In 
two  years  he  took  silk,  becoming  Kings  Counsel. 
Shortly  after  this  he  entered  Parliament  as  a  sup- 
porter of  Pitt  and  member  for  the  Borough  of  Weo- 
bley. 

In  1788  he  was  knighted  on  being  appointed  Solici- 
tor-General, and  it  is  generally  understood  that  he 
drew  the  Regency  Bill  which  was  introduced  in 
1789.  Promotion  to  the  office  of  Attorney  General 
came  in  1793  and  while  incumbent  of  this  office 
he  conducted  the  memorable  prosecutions  for  high 
treason  against  the  British  sympathizers  with  the 
French  revolutionaries.  In  1799  Sir  John  became 
Chief  Justice  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  enter- 
ing the  House  of  Lords  as  Baron  Eldon.  In  Febru- 
ary 1801  Addington  succeeded  Pitt  as  Prime  Min- 
ister and  Lord  Eldon  ascended  the  woolsack  as  Lord 
High  Chancellor  of  England.  He  sat  for  twenty- 
six  years  as  Lord  Chancellor,  from  1801  until  1806 
and  again  from  1807  until  1827,  the  longest  period 
the  Great  Seal  was  ever  held  by  one  individual. 


42  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Lord  Eldon  had  been  created  Earl  of  Eldon  by 
George  IV  in  1821 ;  in  1827,  in  the  seventy-sixth  year 
of  his  age,  he  resigned  the  Chancellorship.  His  wife 
died  before  him  on  28th  June  1831.  They  had  two 
sons,  John  who  died  in  1805  and  William  Henry 
John  who  died  in  1832.  John,  Earl  of  Eldon,  him- 
self died  in  London,  aged  eighty-seven,  on  the  13th 
January  1838,  leaving  two  daughters,  Lady  Frances 
Bankes  and  Lady  Elizabeth  Repton,  and  a  grandson 
who  succeeded  him. 

Lord  Eldon's  greatness  as  a  Judge  is  universally 
acknowledged  and  although  he  was  said  to  be  slow, 
his  judgments  evinced  great  accuracy  and  a  constant 
anxiety  to  do  justice.  His  manners  were  courtly 
and  winning,  but  he  is  said  to  have  been  parsimoni- 
ous and  his  establishment  and  mode  of  life  were 
hardly  in  keeping  with  his  high  office.  He  enjoyed 
a  joke.  On  one  occasion  he  challenged  a  poacher 
on  his  estate  who  accosted  him  as  "Old  Bags  keeper," 
but  Lord  Eldon  told  him  he  was  "Old  Bags  himself." 
The  Bag  Office  was  an  office  in  Chancery  from  which 
he  derived  his  nick-name. 

William,  Baron  Stowell,  the  other  and  elder  of  the 
Scott  brothers,  was,  as  already  mentioned,  born  on 
17th  October  1745.  The  fact  that  he  was  born  in 
the  County  of  Durham,  enabled  him  to  qualify  for 
the  Durham  fellowship  at  University  College,  Ox- 
ford, where  he  was  appointed  a  tutor  and  eventually 
became  senior  tutor  of  the  College.  In  1767  he  took 
the  M.  A.  degree  at  Oxford,  being  elected  Camden 
reader  in  Ancient  History.  He  was  a  friend  of  Dr. 
Johnson  and  executor  of  his  will.  He  had  entered 
as  a  student  at  the  Middle  Temple  in  1762,  but  post- 
poned his  renewal  from  Oxford  to  London  until 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  43 

1777.  He  was  called  to  the  bar  in  February  1780, 
practicing  in  the  Admiralty  and  Eccelesiastical 
Courts,  where  his  success  has  been  described  as 
wonderful.  In  1782  he  received  the  Crown  appoint- 
ment of  Advocate  General  for  the  office  of  the  Lord 
High  Admiral.  In  1783  he  was  appointed,  by  the 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  to  the  office  of  Registrar 
of  the  Court  of  Faculties  and  in  1788  became  Judge 
of  the  Consistory  Court  of  London.  On  September 
3rd  1788  he  received  the  honor  of  knighthood 
and  the  same  year  was  appointed  Judge  of  the 
High  Court  of  Admiralty,  also  being  sworn  of  the 
Privy  Council.  He  was  Member  of  Parliament  for 
Oxford  University  from  1801  until,  on  the  corona- 
tion of  George  IV  by  patent  dated  17th  July  1821, 
he  was  raised  to  the  peerage  with  the  title  of  Baron 
Stowell  of  Stowell  Park.  In  the  same  year  his 
brother  John  was  created  Earl  of  Eldon.  Baron 
Stowell  ranks  as  among  the  most  eminent  of  English 
Judges  and  his  services  to  maritime  and  interna- 
tional law  are  unsurpassed.  Lord  Brougham  said 
of  him,  "There  has  seldom,  if  ever,  appeared  in  the 
profession  of  the  law  anyone  so  peculiarly  endowed 
with  all  the  learning  and  capacity  which  can  ac- 
complish, as  well  as  all  the  graces  which  can  em- 
bellish, the  judicial  character."  He  died  on  the  28th 
January  1836. 

Sir  Walter  Scott,  born  at  Edinburgh  on  the  15th 
August  1771,  the  most  celebrated  poet  and  novelist 
of  his  day,  described  himself  as  "A  Border  Ministrel." 
He  came  from  a  great  fighting  stock,  being  six  gen- 
erations removed  from  Auld  Wat  of  Harden,  tracing 
his  descent  through  the  Scotts  of  Raeburn.  His 
father,  Walter  Scott,  a  writer  to  the  signet  in  Edin- 


44  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

burgh,  was  the  first  of  the  family  to  leave  the  country 
for  the  city;  his  mother  was  Anne,  granddaughter 
of  Sir  Walter  Swinton  and  daughter  of  John  Ruther- 
ford, Professor  of  Medicine  in  the  University  of 
Edinburgh,  a  scion  of  an  old  Border  stock.  Though 
in  boyhood  Sir  Walter's  health  was  delicate,  he  at- 
tended the  High  School  and  in  1783  entered  the 
University  of  Edinburgh.  The  precarious  state  of 
his  health  continuing  to  interfere  with  his  studies, 
he  devoted  much  time  to  his  favorite  subjects, 
romantic  lore,  border  history  and  poetry.  He  was 
admitted  a  member  of  the  Faculty  of  Advocates  in 
1792.  The  year  1796  saw  the  publication  of  his  first 
work,  a  translation  of  two  of  Burger's  ballads  en- 
titled "Leonore"  and  "The  Wild  Huntsman."  In 
the  autumn  of  1797,  while  on  a  visit  to  Gilsland, 
in  Cumberland,  he  met  his  future  wife,  Charlotte 
Charpentier,  the  daughter  of  a  French  refugee; 
visitors  to  Gilsland,  today,  are  shown  the  boulder  in 
the  river,  upon  which  Sir  Walter  and  the  lady  are 
said  to  have  been  seated,  when  he  proposed  mar- 
riage, the  rock  being  locally  celebrated  as  "The 
Popping  Stone."  They  were  married  the  same  year. 
His  first  large  original  work,  "The  Lay  of  the  Last 
Minstrel,"  appeared  in  1805,  the  immediate  and  re- 
markable success  of  the  poem  deciding  Sir  Walter 
to  devote  himself  entirely  to  literary  work.  "Mar- 
mion"  was  published  in  1809,  "The  Lady  of  the 
Lake"  in  1810,  shortly  after  which  he  considered 
his  financial  position  sufficiently  favorable  to  war- 
rant his  first  purchase  of  land  at  Abbotsford,  on  the 
south  bank  of  the  River  Tweed,  three  miles  above 
Melrose.  He  had,  however,  hardly  begun,  in  1812, 
his  plans  for  building  and  laying  out  the  estate, 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  45 

when  the  serious  financial  condition  of  Ballantyne 
&  Co.,  the  publishing  house  with  which  he  was  con- 
nected, brought  him  to  the  very  verge  of  bankruptcy. 
The  crisis  was  temporarily  averted  by  the  help  of 
the  publisher,  Constable,  and  in  July  1814  Scott's 
first  novel  "Waverley"  was  published  by  that  house, 
without  the  name  of  the  author  being  made  known. 
Curiosity  as  to  the  identity  of  "The  Great  Unknown" 
kept  alive  the  interest  in  his  works  and  it  was  not 
until  1827  that  the  secret  of  the  identity  of  the 
author  of  the  Waverley  novels  was  formally  di- 
vulged, though  it  had  long  been  known  to  his 
acquaintances.  The  building  of  the  new  house  at 
Abbotsford  was  completed  in  1824,  but  Scott  had 
occupied  his  new  home  only  one  year,  when  the 
estate  was  involved  in  debt  connected  with  the  fail- 
ure of  Ballantyne  and  Constable.  From  that  time 
he  had  a  hard  fight  with  evil  fortune  and  disease, 
but  in  the  number  of  works  produced,  in  speed  of 
production  and  diversity  of  subject  he  has  never  had 
a  rival.  The  Abbotsford  estate  was  eventually  re- 
deemed by  the  fruit  of  his  brain,  but  not  in  his  life- 
time. He  died  at  Abbotsford  on  the  21st  Septem- 
ber 1832  and  was  buried  at  Dryburgh  Abbey.  His 
eldest  son,  Walter,  a  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  the  15th 
Hussars,  succeeded  to  the  Baronetcy  conferred  on 
his  father  in  1820,  the  title  becoming  extant  on  his 
death,  while  returning  from  India,  in  1847.  The 
Scott  Monument  at  Edinburgh  was  erected  in  1846. 


CHAPTER  IV. 

HILE  Scott  and  Ker  and  Scott  and  Elliot 
were  still  engaged  in  family  feuds  or 
in  spoiling  their  neighbors  across  the 
Border,  and  Buccleuch,  the  head  of  the 
clan,  immolating  his  beloved  Branxholm;  while 
Auld  Wat  of  Harden  was  a  "fyrebrande  of  the 
Border";  adventurers  from  the  old  world  were 
opening  up  the  wonders  of  the  new  land  across  the 
Western  Ocean. 

Though  the  current  of  migration  was  slow  in 
the  early  years  of  the  settlement  of  America,  the 
fact  that  members  of  the  Scott  family  were  among 
the  earliest  colonists  is  evident  by  a  comparison 
of  the  dates  of  the  first  settlements  with  the  time 
of  their  arrival.  In  the  year  1577  a  patent  of 
colonization  for  Virginia  was  granted  to  Sir  Hum- 
phry Gilbert,  and  in  1585  one  hundred  and  eight 
settlers  arrived  under  Sir  Richard  Grenville.  The 
first  permanent  English  settlement,  however,  was 
not  until  1607,  when  a  small  body  of  colonists 
founded  Jamestown  and  other  settlements  along 
the  James  River,  later  to  become  the  Province 
of  Virginia.  In  the  same  year  a  small  colony  was 
formed  in  what  is  now  Maine,  and  from  that  date 
onwards  other  communities  were  forming  on  the 
Atlantic  seaboard,  the  most  important  in  New 
England.  New  York  was  founded  in  1614;  while 
the  year  1620  saw  the  arrival  of  the  historic 
"Mayflower"  and  the  founding  of  the  Plymouth 

46 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  47 

Colony,  later  to  become  merged  in  the  Colony  of 
Massachusetts,  which  in  1629  obtained  a  royal 
charter  for  the  territory  between  the  Merrimac 
and  Charles  Rivers.  Maryland  was  founded  in 
1632,  being  followed  by  other  settlements  until  the 
entire  coast  line  north  of  Florida  was  occupied  by 
English  Colonies. 

Having  in  mind  the  dates  above  mentioned,  it 
will  be  seen  from  the  following  account  of  some 
of  the  first  Scotts  in  America,  that  the  name  is 
found  at  an  early  date  in  the  records  of  the 
newly  founded  settlements. 

Early  mention  of  the  name  is  found  in  "The 
Proceedings  of  the  English  Colonies  in  Virginia 
since  their  first  beginning  from  England  in  the 
yeare  of  our  Lord  1606,  till  this  present  1612  with 
all  their  accidents  that  befell  them  in  their  jour- 
nies  and  discoveries,"  printed  at  Oxford  in  1612. 
It  contains  a  list  of  105  names  entitled  "The 
names  of  them  that  were  the  first  planters,"  among 
whom  is  "Nic.  Skot"  otherwise  Nicholas  Scott. 
Other  early  references  are  found  in  "Burk's  Names 
of  the  Adventurers  for  Virginia  in  1620"  which 
includes  three  Scotts,  Geo.  Scott,  Thomas  Scott, 
Edm.  Scott;  also  in  "A  List  of  Names  of  the 
Living  in  Virginia,"  dated  16th  February  1623, 
are  Henry  Scott  and  "at  the  Eastern  shore"  Walter 
Scott  and  Goodwife  Scott,  the  latter  being  a  cus- 
tomary method  of  recording  a  wife.  In  another 
list  of  the  inhabitants  of  "The  Eastern  Shore  Ouer 
the  Baye"  the  entry  is  Walter  Scott,  Apphia  Scott 
and  Percis  Scott,  the  last  named  "borne  in  Vir- 
ginia." 

A  little  later,  mention  is  made  of  the  coming 


48  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

of  other  Scotts;  this  time  to  New  England.  "A 
note  of  the  names  and  ages  of  all  the  passengers 
which  tooke  shipping  in  the  'Elizabeth'  of  Ipswich 
bound  for  New  England  the  last  of  Aprill  1634" 
includes  Thomas  Scott,  aged  40,  and  his  wife  Eliza- 
beth, with  their  children,  Elizabeth  nine  years  old, 
Abigail  seven  and  Thomas,  six.  Also  Martha  Scott, 
aged  60,  mother  of  the  first  named  Thomas  and 
widow  of  Henry  Scott  of  Rattlesden,  Suffolk. 
Thomas  Scott  and  his  family  settled  at  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts,  later  removing  to  the  new  settle- 
ment of  Ipswich,  of  which  he  was  town  officer 
in  1653. 

Another  record  relates  to  a  Thomas  Scott  living 
in  Hartford  in  1637.  It  is  stated  that  he  "was 
k.  6th  November  1643  careless  by  John  Ewe  for 
wh.  he  was  fin.  £5  to  the  Col.  and  £10  to  the  wid." 
In  the  records  of  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts 
Bay  among  "Psons  made  free  the  7th  of  the  10th 
month  @  1636,"  is  Robert  Scotte  and  at  "A  Court 
of  Assistants  or  Quarter  Court  held  at  Boston  the 
3d  of  the  10th  mo.  1639,"  a  Robert  Scott  was 
one  of  a  jury  who  acquitted  Marmadake  Peirce, 
tried  upon  "suspition  of  murther." 

Richard  Scott  was  born  in  England  at  Glems- 
ford,  Suffolk,  his  father's  family  being  an  offshoot 
of  the  family  of  Scots  Hall.  He  landed  at  Boston, 
having,  probably,  came  over  in  the  "Griffin"  in 
1633  or  1634.  An  entry  in  an  old  record,  dated 
November  24th  1634,  states  that  he  and  another 
"was  lost  in  their  way  homewards  and  wandered 
up  and  down  six  days  and  eat  nothing.  At  length 
they  were  found  by  an  Indian  being  almost  sense- 
less for  want  of  rest."  He  was  admitted  a  mem- 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  49 

ber  of  the  Boston  Church  on  the  28th  August 
1634.  He  then  appears  in  the  Providence  Planta- 
tions, being  described  as  "of  Providence  in  ye 
Colony  of  Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Planta- 
tions." The  Plantations  comprised  what  is  now 
Woonsocket,  Smithfield,  Lincoln,  North  Providence, 
Johnston  and  Cranston.  His  signature  is  attached 
to  the  Providence  Compact,  dated  20th  August 
1637,  and  in  the  same  year  he  married  Catherine 
Marbury.  Scott  prospered  and  sometime  between 
1640  and  1650  sold  his  property  in  Providence  and 
removed  to  his  lands  at  Moshasuck.  Both  he  and 
his  son  John  took  an  active  part  in  the  early 
Indian  fighting.  In  1656  Christopher  Holder,  a 
Quaker,  arrived  from  England  and  Richard  Scott 
and  his  wife  joined  the  new  faith;  Richard,  it  is 
said,  being  the  first  Quaker  convert  in  New  Eng- 
land. While  on  a  visit  to  Christopher  Holder  at 
Boston,  in  1658,  Catherine  Scott,  the  wife,  was 
whipped  with  ten  lashes  for  Quakerism;  Chris- 
topher Holder  having  already  suffered  the  crop- 
ping of  one  ear.  Richard  Scott  was  a  representa- 
tive in  the  General  Assembly  and  died  in  1681  or 
1682.  He  had  two  sons  and  five  daughters. 

The  register  of  the  Honorable  Artillery  Company 
of  Boston  recites  that  Robert  Scott  was  enrolled 
a  member  of  that  body  in  1638,  the  Company  then 
being  known  as  The  Military  Company  of  the 
Massachusetts.  This  Robert  Scott,  an  emigrant, 
joined  the  First  Church  at  Boston  on  15th  Decem- 
ber 1633  and  was  admitted  a  freeman  of  the 
Colony  on  the  6th  December  1636.  In  1637  he 
was  granted  a  "great  lot  for  twelve  heads"  at 
the  Mount,  obtaining  an  additional  grant  of  200 


50  History  of  the  Scott  Family. 

acres  in  1640.  He  was  clerk  to  the  Honorable 
Artillery  Company  in  1645.  The  Town  Records 
in  1649  refer  to  him  as  "Sergaint"  and  as  "Ensign" 
in  1652.  He  died  in  1654. 

Captain  John  Scott,  known  also  as  Scott  of 
Long  Island,  at  one  time  claimed  to  be  the  owner 
of  "near  one  third  part"  of  the  Island.  According 
to  his  own  account,  he  was  the  son  of  an  Eng- 
lishman of  some  fortune;  also,  that  for  cutting 
the  bridles  and  girths  of  the  Parliamentary  Troops 
at  Turnham  Green,  when  the  King's  forces  were 
at  Brentford  in  1642,  he  was  brought  before  a 
Parliamentary  Committee  and,  with  other  children, 
sent  to  New  England  under  the  care  of  Edmond 
Dowling  in  1643.  Scott  was  placed  with  a  settler 
named  Laurence  Southwick.  His  master,  after 
suffering  imprisonment  and  being  fined  and 
whipped  during  the  Quaker  persecution,  was,  in 
1659,  banished  from  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts 
and  fled  for  safety  to  Shelter  Island.  The  fol- 
lowing year  Scott  "caused  much  embarrassment  to 
the  people  of  Southampton"  by  selling  to  the  colo- 
nists land  which  he  claimed  to  have  bought  from 
the  Indians,  which  claim  was  afterwards  found 
to  be  fraudulent.  In  1661  he  was  back  in  London; 
attracted  by  the  news  of  the  Restoration,  return- 
ing to  Long  Island  in  1662.  A  second  journey 
to  London  was  undertaken  in  order  to  obtain  a 
letter  from  the  King  in  relation  to  the  Narraganset 
lands,  and,  while  in  London,  Scott  petitioned  the 
Crown  that  he  be  appointed  Governor  of  Long 
Island,  supporting  his  prayer  by  allegations  against 
various  persons  and  complaints  of  the  intrusion 
of  the  Dutch  into  the  Island.  In  answer  to  his 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  51 

petition,  the  Committee  ordered  "Capt.  Scott,  Mr. 
Maverick  and  Mr.  Baxter  to  draw  up  a  report  of 
the  intrusions  and  make  them  acknowledge  or 
submit  to  the  King's  Government;  or  expulse 
them."  Scott  was  well  received  on  his  return  to 
Massachusetts,  his  expenses  paid  and  an  armed 
force  furnished  him,  with  which  he  went  to  Long 
Island.  In  consequence  of  Scott's  announcement 
that  the  King  had  granted  the  Island  to  the  Duke 
of  York,  a  number  of  Long  Island  communities 
decided  to  reject  union  with  any  other  Colony, 
empowering  Scott,  as  President,  to  provide  for 
the  public  safety.  Scott  claimed  authority  over 
the  whole  of  the  Island,  but  later,  in  fear  of 
imprisonment,  escaped  and  joined  the  English 
forces.  A  complaint  was  again  lodged  that  "Scott 
according  to  his  wonted  course"  was  creating  dis- 
turbance. In  1665,  we  find  that  Col.  Nicholls,  the 
Deputy  Governor  appointed  by  the  Duke  of  York, 
had  lost  all  confidence  in  Scott,  whom  he  de- 
scribes as  "a  man  born  to  mischief,"  and  more 
complaints  arising,  Scott  fled  to  the  Barbadoes. 
Nothing  certain  is  known  of  his  subsequent  career. 
Among  the  settlers  at  Gravesend,  Long  Island, 
in  1646,  appears  the  name  Rodger  Scott,  and  the 
records  of  the  same  settlement  show  that  William 
Scott  was  the  buyer  of  a  house  and  garden  on  31st 
May  1660.  This  is  believed  to  be  the  same  William 
Scott  who  obtained  a  license  to  marry  Abigail 
Warner  in  1678.  He  removed  to  Shrewsbury,  New 
Jersey,  in  1682  or  1683,  obtaining  two  patents  for 
land  in  that  township  in  the  year  1688.  He  was 
a  farmer  and  one  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  He 
had  five  sons  and  a  daughter  and  died  some  time 
prior  to  1707. 


52  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Other  records  of  this  period  tell  us  that  "At 
a  small  Court  at  Boston  the  28th  of  the  5th  mo. 
1642,"  Margaret  Stephenson  was  judged  at  liberty 
to  be  married  to  Benjamin  Scott.  Also  that 
Edmund  Scott  settled  in  New  England  in  1649, 
becoming  a  freeman  in  1669.  He  was  an  original 
proprietor  of  Waterbury  and  died  there  in  1699. 
In  1651,  Edward  Scott  asked  for  a  grant  of  land 
at  New  London  "yet  did  not  improve  it"  and 
went  to  Hadley  in  1662.  At  the  latter  place  a 
marriage  was  recorded  in  1670  between  Edward 
Scott  and  Elizabeth  Webster. 

Among  the  early  settlers  at  Springfield  in  the 
Colony  of  Massachusetts  was  one  John  Scott.  He 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Margaret 
Bliss,  on  the  26th  July  1659.  It  is  probable 
that  he  and  William  Scott  of  Hatfield,  men- 
tioned later,  were  brothers  and  emigrated  together. 
In  1664  John  Scott  bought  a  tract  of  land  on  the 
Agawam  River  and  a  record  of  the  same  year 
states,  "The  Jury  also  presented  Captain  Pynchon 
and  John  Scott  for  not  mayntayning  their  fences 
on  the  west  side  of  the  river."  He  took  part  in 
the  Falls  fight  with  the  Indians  in  1676,  and  was 
still  a  citizen  of  Springfield  when  he  took  the  oath 
of  allegiance  in  1678,  but  shortly  after  obtained 
a  grant  of  land  at  Suffield  to  which  he  removed 
and  died  there  on  2nd  January  1690.  He  had 
eight  children. 

About  the  year  1668  William  Scott  came  to 
Hatfield  in  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts,  but  there 
is  no  record  to  tell  from  whence  he  came.  It 
is  probable,  as  before  mentioned,  that  he  and  John 
Scott  of  Springfield  were  brothers  who  had  emi- 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  53 

grated  from  the  old  country.  On  8th  August  1670, 
William  Scott  was  assigned  a  lot  of  20  rods  in 
width  "on  the  east  side  of  the  street  near  the 
north  end  of  the  street,"  opposite  Sergeant  Wait's 
property ;  and  in  the  same  year  he  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Lieutenant  Allis  of  Hatfield.  Another 
grant  of  land  and  a  division  in  the  commons  were 
granted  him  in  1671.  William  Scott's  house  at 
the  north  end  of  the  street  was  outside  the 
palisaded  inclosure  and  undoubtedly  suffered  when, 
in  1675,  Indians  numbering  nearly  800  attacked 
the  settlement  with  the  intention  of  destroying  it. 
The  attack  was,  however,  expected;  the  Indians 
being  driven  off  after  hard  fighting.  A  curious 
record  dated  1673,  tells  us  that  Hannah  Scott, 
William's  wife,  and  five  other  Hatfield  women 
were  fined  for  wearing  silk  contrary  to  the  law. 
William  Scott  took  part  in  the  battle  with  the 
Indians  at  Turner's  Falls  on  19th  May  1676  when 
the  red  men  were  utterly  defeated,  though  many 
Colonists  were  killed,  including  Scott's  brother-in- 
law,  William  Allis,  Jr.  Scott  was  again  among 
the  defenders,  when  the  Indians  attacked  on  19th 
September  1677,  killing  twelve  settlers  and  taking 
seventeen  captive;  the  latter  being  all  redeemed 
with  the  exception  of  three  whom  the  Indians  had 
already  killed.  The  same  year  the  General  Court 
at  Boston  showed  their  appreciation  of  the  part 
William  Scott  had  taken  in  the  fighting,  awarding 
him  two  pounds  sixteen  shillings  for  military  ex- 
penses. He  had  ten  children  and  died  about  1718, 
leaving  considerable  landed  property. 

One  year  before  Charles  II  granted  a  charter  to 
William  Penn  for  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania, 


54  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Hugh  Scott,  in  1670,  settled  in  Chester  County. 
He  was  born  in  the  north  of  Ireland  of  Scottish 
descent. 

A  New  York  Council  Minute,  dated  4th  August 
1677,  states  that  Benjamin  Scott,  and  others  named, 
came  before  the  Council,  "Informing  the  Governor 
of  their  being  lately  come  from  England  in  the 
good  ship  'The  Kent*  now  riding  in  the  Bay  near 
Sandy  Hoeck."  Benjamin  Scott,  who  came  from 
Widdington,  England,  was  one  of  the  commission- 
ers of  the  London  Quakers,  who,  with  some  Quakers 
from  Yorkshire,  founded  Burlington,  New  Jersey. 
He  is  included  in  the  list  of  "Magistrates  of  West 
New  Jersey,  commission  being  the  first  dated 
August  1677." 

The  third  son  of  the  first  Sir  John  Scott  of 
Ancrum,  Captain  John  Scott,  came  to  New  York 
from  Scotland  about  1690.  He  was  probably  an 
officer  in  the  Army,  as  in  1717  he  was  in  command 
of  Fort  Hunter,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Scoharie 
Creek.  His  son  John  was  a  prominent  merchant  in 
New  York. 

Notwithstanding  that  the  following  hardly  tends 
to  enhance  the  reputation  of  the  name,  it  indicates 
that  even  at  so  early  a  date  a  Scott  was  extensively 
engaged  in  tobacco  planting.  In  1692  Jane  Scott 
of  "Elizabeth  City  County,"  Virginia,  complained 
to  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  that  her  husband  was 
not  contributing  to  the  support  of  herself  and 
child.  An  order  was  promptly  made  that  Scott, 
her  husband,  at  once  pay  her  fifteen  hundred 
pounds  of  tobacco. 

Three  generations  of  one  family  of  Scott  form 
links  connecting  an  old  Manse  in  the  north  of 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  55 

Scotland,  with  the  erection  of  the  Capitol  to  be 
occupied  by  the  Congress  of  the  new  nation.  The 
Rev.  John  Scott,  born  1650  died  1726,  of  the 
Parish  of  Dipple  in  the  Presbytery  of  Elgin,  Moray- 
shire,  had  two  sons,  Alexander  and  James,  who 
leaving  the  old  country  settled  in  the  Colony  of 
Virginia.  Alexander  Scott  was  ordained  and 
licensed  for  Virginia  by  the  Bishop  of  London  in 
1710,  in  which  same  year  he  arrived  in  the  Colony, 
residing  on  an  estate  he  named  Dipple,  in  memory 
of  the  old  home  in  Scotland.  He  was  Rector  of 
Overwharton  Parish,  Stafford  County,  for  "near 
28  years,"  and  is  mentioned  as  being  present  at 
a  convention  of  the  Virginia  clergy  at  William 
and  Mary  College.  He  died  without  issue  in  1738. 
His  brother,  the  Rev.  James  Scott,  whom  he  had 
invited  to  Virginia,  inherited  the  Dipple  estate,  but 
removed  to  Prince  William  County,  where  he  died 
in  1782  leaving  nine  children.  His  son,  Hon. 
Gustavus  Scott,  born  1753,  went  to  Maryland 
where  he  was  chosen  a  delegate  from  Somerset 
County  to  the  Provincial  Convention  at  Annapolis, 
22nd  June  1774;  also  was  one  of  the  Association 
of  Freemen  who,  in  July  1775,  determined  to 
abolish  the  proprietary  government  of  Maryland. 
Later  he  became  a  member  of  the  Maryland  Legis- 
lature. Removing  to  Georgetown,  the  Hon.  Gus- 
tavus Scott  was,  in  1795,  appointed  by  the  City 
of  Washington  a  commissioner  to  superintend  the 
erection  of  the  National  Capitol.  He  died  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.,  in  1801. 


CHAPTER  V. 

HE  year  1774  was  a  fateful  year  in 
the  history  of  the  American  Colonies.  It 
witnessed  the  meeting  of  the  First  Con- 
tinental Congress,  held  in  the  City  of 
Philadelphia,  on  the  5th  day  of  September  1774; 
this  Congress  being  the  initial  step  towards  the 
conflict  which  was  to  wrest  the  Colonies  from  the 
rule  of  the  English  King. 

Sprung  from  a  fighting  stock,  it  is  only  to  be 
expected  that  the  men  of  the  name  of  Scott  were 
to  be  found  among  the  sturdy  farmers  and  hardy 
settlers,  who,  through  the  long  years  from  1775 
to  1783,  faced  the  soldiers  of  England  and  fought 
for  the  right  of  self-government. 

The  two  members  of  the  Scott  family  whose 
names  are  most  prominent  in  the  records  of  the 
Revolutionary  War  were  Brig.-General  Charles 
Scott  and  Brig.-General  John  Morin  Scott.  The 
former  was  a  native  of  Cumberland  County  in 
Virginia,  where  he  raised  the  first  Company  of 
Volunteers  in  that  State,  south  of  the  James  River, 
that  entered  the  Continental  service.  He  was  ap- 
pointed Lieut.-Colonel  of  the  2nd  Virginia  Regi- 
ment in  February  1776  and,  in  May  of  the  same 
year,  Colonel  of  the  5th  Virginia  Regiment.  Scott 
was  in  command  of  Virginian  troops  when,  on 
Christmas  night,  1776,  Washington  recrossed  the 
Delaware  to  attack  Trenton,  completely  surprising 
and  routing  the  Hessians.  In  April  of  the  fol- 

56 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  57 

lowing  year,  Congress  appointed  him  a  Brigadier- 
General  in  the  Continental  Army,  and  when  Wash- 
ington marched  to  Princeton  with  the  main  army, 
General  Scott,  with  chosen  troops,  was  detailed  to 
harass  and  retard  the  enemy.  He  commanded  a 
brigade  at  the  Battle  of  Germantown,  later  going 
into  winter  quarters  with  Washington  during  the 
trying  winter  of  1777-78  at  Valley  Forge.  He 
was  also  at  the  Battle  of  Monmouth  in  1778  with 
express  orders  "to  hold  his  position,"  and  at  the 
Court  Martial  for  the  trial  of  Major-General 
Charles  Lee,  convened  at  Brunswick,  4th  July 
1778,  General  Scott  gave  evidence  as  to  having 
heard  Washington  instruct  General  Lee  to  attack. 
Taken  prisoner  at  Charleston  on  12th  May  1780, 
General  Scott  was  on  parole  at  the  end  of  the 
War.  He  settled  in  Woodford  County,  Va.,  in 
1785,  but  again  went  on  active  service,  being  pres- 
ent at  the  defeat  of  St.  Clair  in  1791,  and  com- 
manding a  section  of  Wayne's  Army  at  the  Battle 
of  The  Fallen  Timber  in  1794.  He  was  Governor 
of  Kentucky  from  1808  to  1812  and  died  on  the 
20th  October  1820,  aged  74. 

Brigadier-General  John  Morin  Scott  was  de- 
scended from  the  Scotts  of  Ancrum.  Born  in  1730, 
after  graduating  at  Yale  he  adopted  the  profession 
of  the  law.  He  was  defeated  in  the  election  for  the 
General  Congress  of  1774,  mainly  on  account  of 
his  active  advocacy  of  extreme  measures,  but  was 
an  influential  member  of  the  General  Committee 
of  New  York  in  1775;  also  a  member  of  the  Pro- 
vincial Congress  of  that  year.  Commissioned  a 
Brigadier-General  of  New  York  Militia  on  9th 
June  1776,  he  commanded  a  brigade  in  the  Battle 


58  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

of  Long  Island,  and  was  one  of  the  Council  of 
War  summoned  by  Washington  after  the  battle.  He 
served  later  with  General  Heath  in  Westchester 
County,  being  wounded  at  White  Plains  on  28th 
October  1776.  He  left  the  army  in  March  1777 
when  appointed  Secretary  of  New  York  State.  He 
was  a  Delegate  from  New  York  to  the  Continental 
Congress  from  1780  until  1783  and  died  on  the 
14th  September  1784,  being  buried  in  Trinity 
Churchyard,  New  York  City. 

In  the  List  of  Continental  Army  Officers,  the 
following  of  the  name  of  Scott  are  mentioned  as 
holding  commissions  in  that  section  of  the  forces 
engaged : 

Brigadier-General  Scott,  above  mentioned. 

Brigadier-General  John  Morin  Scott,  above  men- 
tioned. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  William  Scott,  2nd  South 
Carolina  Regiment,  acted  as  Volunteer  in  com- 
mand of  marines  on  board  the  schooner  "Defence" 
for  which  Congress  accorded  him  a  Vote  of  Thanks ; 
in  command  of  Fort  and  made  prisoner  on  the 
capitulation  of  Fort  Moultrie,  14th  September  1780, 
exchanged  and  served  until  end  of  war. 

Major  William  Scott,  1st  New  Hampshire  Regi- 
ment, and  16th  Continental  Infantry,  wounded  and 
taken  prisoner. 

Major  Joseph  Scott,  Sr.,  commissioned  Lieutenant 
in  1st  Virginia  Regiment,  16th  September  1775, 
Brigade-Major  to  General  Muhlenberg,  28th  Au- 
gust 1777,  wounded  at  Germantown,  but  served 
until  end  of  war.  Joseph  Scott,  Jr.,  is  mentioned 
below. 

Captain  William  Scott,  3rd  Georgia  Regiment 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  59 

Captain  John  Day  Scott,  Smallwood's  Maryland 
Regiment,  killed  at  White  Plains,  28th  October 
1776. 

Captain  William  Scott,  Lieutenant  in  Sargent's 
Massachusetts  Regiment,  taken  prisoner  at  Bunker 
Hill  1775,  exchanged,  Captain  in  Henley's  Conti- 
nental Regiment  1777,  transferred  to  Jackson's 
Regiment,  1779. 

Captain  David  Scott,  13th  Virginia  Regiment. 

Captain  George  Scott,  Lieutenant  in  Stephenson's 
Virginia  Rifle  Company,  Captain  Virginia  Militia. 

Captain  Joseph  Scott,  Jr.,  commissioned  Lieu- 
tenant in  1st  Virginia  Regiment,  21st  January  1776, 
Captain,  12th  May  1780,  and  served  until  end  of 
war. 

Captain  James  Scott,  Virginia  Militia. 

Captain  William  Scott,  Thurston's  Continental 
Regiment. 

Captain  Ezekiel  Scott,  2nd  and  22nd  Continental 
Infantry. 

Captain  Jeremiah  Scott,  Rhode  Island  Militia. 

Captain  William  Scott,  Clotz's  Pennsylvania  Bat- 
talion of  the  Flying  Camp,  taken  prisoner  at  Fort 
Washington,  16th  November  1776. 

Captain  John  Budd  Scott,  2nd  New  Jersey  Regi- 
ment. 

Lieutenant  Benjamin  Scott,  2nd  New  Jersey 
Regiment. 

Lieutenant  John  Eppis  Scott,  15th  Virginia  Regi- 
ment, later  known  as  llth  Virginia  Regiment. 

Lieutenant  Walter  Scott,  a  Virginia  State  Regi- 
ment. 

Lieutenant  John  Scott,  Lancaster  Co.,  Pennsyl- 
vania Militia. 


60  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Lieutenant  Joseph  James  Scott,  South  Carolina 
Rangers,  wounded  at  Black  Mingo,  14th  September 
1780. 

Cornet  Charles  Scott,  1st  Continental  Dragoons, 
also  Baylor's  Regiment  of  Dragoons. 

Ensign  James  Scott,  7th  and  4th  Massachusetts 
Regiments. 

Ensign  John  Scott,  2nd  Virginia  and  1st  Vir- 
ginia Regiments. 

Ensign  William  Scott,  4th  Virginia  Regiment. 

Chaplain  Alexander  Scott,  1st  Georgia  Regiment. 

Hospital  Physician  and  Surgeon  Moses  Scott. 

Surgeon's  Mate  Calvin  Scott,  8th  Massachusetts 
Regiment. 

From  the  above  names  of  officers  it  will  be 
noted  that  commissioned  officers  of  the  name  of 
Scott  represented  eleven  of  the  then  thirteen  States : 
Georgia,  Maryland,  Massachusetts,  Virginia,  Con- 
necticut, Rhode  Island,  Pennsylvania,  New  Jersey, 
New  York,  South  Carolina  and  New  Hampshire. 

In  addition  to  the  officers  in  the  Continental 
Army,  the  family  name  was  equally  well  repre- 
sented in  the  other  troops  of  the  different  States. 
A  notable  example  was  the  Company  of  Minute 
Men  raised  by  Captain  William  Scott  of  Peter- 
borough. This  Company  marched  on  20th  April 
1775  in  response  to  the  alarm  of  19th  April  and 
included  seven  Scotts:  Captain  William  Scott  in 
command,  Lieutenant  William  Scott,  Corporal 
James  Scott  and  Privates  Thomas  Scott,  John 
Scott,  William  Scott  and  David  Scott.  It  is  not 
possible  to  make  individual  mention  of  each  hardy 
hero  of  the  name  of  Scott,  who  braved  the  horrors 
of  that  memorable  war  and  shared  the  honor  of 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  61 

the  ultimate  victory.  There  were  150  soldiers  and 
sailors  from  the  one  Colony  of  Massachusetts  alone ! 
From  little  Vermont  came  26,  from  Connecticut  36, 
from  New  York  80,  and  from  each  of  the  thirteen 
States  the  old  fighting  stock  came  forth  to  battle. 
Mention  may,  however,  be  made  of  the  following 
who,  among  others  of  the  name,  served  as  officers 
in  the  Militia  and  Levies  of  the  States:  Major 
Abraham  Scott  of  Colonel  Jacob  Cook's  Battalion, 
at  Battle  of  Brandywine,  September  1777,  Battle 
of  Germantown  and  in  the  Jersey  Campaign; 
Major  Ezekiel  Scott,  New  York;  Captain  Samuel 
Scott,  Vermont;  Captain  Daniel  Scott,  2nd  Lin- 
coln Co.,  Massachusetts  Militia;  Captain  William 
Scott,  Massachusetts  Militia;  Captain  John  Scott, 
New  York;  Captain  John  Scott,  Massachusetts 
Militia;  Captain  William  Scott,  Virginia;  Lieuten- 
ant John  Scott,  Vermont  Militia;  Lieutenant  Jon- 
athan Scott,  Vermont  Militia;  Lieutenant  David 
Scott,  Massachusetts  Militia;  Lieutenant  James 
Scott,  Brigantine  "Freedom";  Lieutenant  John 
Scott,  Massachusetts  Militia;  Lieutenant  Moses 
Scott,  Massachusetts  Militia;  Lieutenant  William 
Scott,  Massachusetts  Militia;  Lieutenant  Ezekiel 
Scott,  Westchester  County  Militia;  Lieutenant  Ben- 
jamin Scott,  New  Hampshire;  Lieutenant  John 
Scott,  New  Hampshire;  Ensign  Jonathan  Scott, 
Connecticut ;  Ensign  James  Scott,  7th  Massachusetts 
Militia. 

On  the  retirement  of  Brigadier-General  John 
Morin  Scott  from  the  office  of  Secretary  of  New 
York  State,  he  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  John 
Allaire  Scott,  whose  only  son,  John  Morin  Scott, 
born  1789,  served  in  the  War  of  1812  as  Lieutenant 
of  Cavalry. 


62  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Two  Delegates  of  the  name  of  Scott  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Continental  Congress,  Brigadier-General 
John  Morin  Scott,  Delegate  from  New  York,  1780- 
1783  and  Gustavus  Scott,  Delegate  from  Mary- 
land 1784-1785. 

The  outstanding  figure,  both  in  the  War  of 
1812  and  the  Mexican  War,  1846-1848,  was  Major- 
General  Winfield  Scott.  He  was  born  at  Laurel 
Branch,  near  Petersburg,  Dinwiddie  County,  Vir- 
ginia, on  18th  June  1786.  His  father,  William 
Scott,  served  in  the  Revolutionary  War  as  Lieuten- 
ant and  afterward  Captain  in  a  Virginia  Com- 
pany. His  grandfather,  James  Scott,  claimed  de- 
scent from  the  Scotts  of  Buccleuch,  and  having 
espoused  the  cause  of  the  Pretender  to  the  Eng- 
lish throne,  after  the  defeat  at  Cullsden,  escaped 
to  Virginia  in  1746.  Winfield  Scott  was  educated 
at  William  and  Mary  College,  afterward  being  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar.  The  prospect  of  a  war  with 
Great  Britain  being  imminent,  he  received  his 
commission  as  Captain  of  Artillery  in  May  1808. 
On  the  formal  declaration  of  war,  18th  June  1812, 
Scott  was  assigned  to  the  2nd  Artillery  stationed 
at  Black  Rock  for  the  protection  of  the  Navy 
Yard.  In  March  1813  he  was  appointed  Ad- 
jutant-General with  the  rank  of  Colonel,  about  the 
same  time  being  promoted  to  be  Colonel  of  his 
Regiment.  On  9th  March  1814  he  was  appointed 
to  the  rank  of  Brigadier-General  and  on  5th  July 
of  the  same  year  won  the  Battle  of  Chippewa. 
He  was  severely  wounded  in  the  Battle  of  Lundy's 
Lane,  but  on  the  16th  of  the  following  October 
assumed  command  of  the  Tenth  Military  District 
with  headquarters  at  Washington. 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  63 

Congress  passed  a  joint  resolution  complimenting 
General  Scott  for  his  skill  and  gallantry  in  the 
Battles  of  Chippewa  and  Niagara,  further  pre- 
senting him  with  a  gold  medal.  The  Legislatures 
of  Virginia  and  New  York  also  passed  resolutions 
of  thanks.  The  treaty  of  peace  being  signed  in 
December  1814,  General  Scott  was  offered  the 
appointment  of  Secretary  of  War,  but  having  de- 
clined on  the  ground  that  he  was  too  young,  was 
intrusted  with  an  important  mission  to  Europe. 
On  his  return,  in  1816,  he  was  appointed  to  the 
command  of  the  seaboard  with  headquarters  in  the 
City  of  New  York.  General  Scott  married  Maria 
D.,  daughter  of  Colonel  John  Mayo  of  Richmond, 
Virginia,  on  the  llth  March  1817.  In  1829  he  was 
assigned  to  the  command  of  the  Eastern  Depart- 
ment, and  in  1832  and  following  years  was  em- 
ployed in  operations  against  the  Indian  tribes.  On 
November  23rd,  1846  he  was  ordered  by  Secretary 
of  War  Marcy  to  take  command  of  the  forces 
assembled  in  Mexico.  He  landed  at  Vera  Cruz 
in  March  1847,  the  city  capitulating  to  him  the 
same  month.  In  April  of  the  same  year  he  won 
the  Battle  of  Cerro  Gordo,  in  August  the  Battle 
of  Cherubusco,  following  up  these  successes  with 
the  Battles  of  Molino  del  Rey  and  Chapultepec. 
On  September  14th  General  Scott  hoisted  the  colors 
of  his  country  in  the  capital  of  Mexico  and  on 
the  palace  of  its  government,  later  concluding  an 
advantageous  peace.  Congress  again  voted  Gen- 
eral Scott  a  gold  medal.  From  1841  to  1861,  Gen- 
eral Scott  was  General  Commander  of  the  United 
States  Forces,  but  on  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
War  was  too  infirm  to  take  actual  command  and 


64  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

resigned  November  6th  1861.  He  died  at  West 
Point  on  the  29th  May  1866  and  was  buried 
June  1st  in  the  West  Point  Cemetery.  He  had 
eight  children,  Virginia,  who  died  unmarried; 
Cornelia,  who  married  Colonel  Henry  Lee  Scott, 
Adjutant-General  to  General  Scott  for  many  years; 
Camilla,  married  Gould  Hoyt  of  New  York;  Ella, 
married  Carroll  McTavish;  and  two  sons  and  two 
daughters  who  died  before  reaching  maturity. 
General  Scott  was  on  two  occasions  an  unsuc- 
cessful candidate  for  the  Presidency,  in  his  auto- 
biography thanking  God  for  his  political  defeats. 
He  was  of  commanding  presence,  six  feet  five 
inches  in  height,  stately  in  has  manners  and  ex- 
acting in  his  discipline,  with  that  power  which 
Carnot  calls  "the  glory  of  the  soldier  and  the 
strength  of  armies."  In  the  words  of  his  friend 
General  Wilson,  "He  has  bequeathed  to  his  country 
a  name  pure  and  unspotted — a  name  than  which 
the  Republic  has  few  indeed  that  shine  with  a 
brighter  luster,  and  a  name  that  will  go  down  to 
future  generations  with  those  of  the  greatest  cap- 
tains of  the  nineteenth  century." 

Among  the  officers  in  the  Regular  Army  during 
the  war  with  Mexico,  were  the  following  of  the 
name  of  Scott: 

Colonel  Henry  Lee  Scott,  North  Carolina,  son- 
in-law  of  General  Winfield  Scott,  also  aide-de-camp, 
mentioned  for  gallant  and  meritorious  conduct  in 
the  Battles  of  Contreras,  Cherubusco,  and  Chapul- 
tepec,  Inspector  General  United  States  Army, 

Major  John  B.  Scott,  Connecticut,  mentioned  for 
Colonel  14th  May  1861,  retired  for  physical  de- 
bility 30th  October  1861. 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  65 

gallant  and  meritorious  conduct  in  the  Battles  of 
Palo  Alto  and  Resaca  de  la  Palma. 

Major  John  M.  Scott,  Kentucky,  mentioned  for 
gallant  and  meritorious  conduct  in  the  several  con- 
flicts at  Monterey. 

Major  Martin  Scott,  Vermont,  mentioned  for 
gallant  and  meritorious  conduct  in  Battles  of  Palo 
Alto,  Resaca  de  la  Palma  and  Monterey,  killed  at 
the  head  of  his  regiment  in  the  Battle  of  Molino 
del  Rey,  8th  September  1847. 

Captain  (afterward  Major-General)  Robert  K. 
Scott,  Ohio. 

Captain  Henry  Scott. 

Captain  Alexander  Scott,  Georgia. 

Lieutenant  Samuel  C.  Scott,  Louisiana. 

Lieutenant  William  H.  Scott,  Missouri,  mentioned 
for  gallant  and  meritorious  conduct  at  Battles  of 
Contreras  and  Cherubusco. 

Lieutenant  David  Scott,  Infantry. 

Among  officers  of  the  name  of  Scott  who  served 
during  the  Mexican  War  with  the  troops  of  the 
different  States,  were:  Captain  Robert  G.  Scott, 
1st  Virginia  Infantry;  Captain  Robert  K.  Scott, 
1st  Pennsylvania  Infantry;  Lieutenant  Alexander 
Scott,  Pennsylvania  Infantry;  Lieutenant  Charles 
G.  Scott,  7th  New  York  Infantry;  Lieutenant 
Cyrus  A.  Scott,  4th  Kentucky  Infantry;  Lieutenant 
John  Scott,  3rd  Missouri  Infantry;  Lieutenant  Nar- 
borne  B.  Scott,  Kentucky  Cavalry;  Lieutenant 
Robert  C.  Scott,  4th  Illinois  Infantry;  Lieutenant 
Walter  F.  Scott,  Arkansas  Volunteers;  Lieutenant 
William  A.  Scott,  1st  Virginia  Infantry;  Lieuten- 
ant William  W.  Scott,  Florida  Volunteers. 

In  February  1861,  two  Presidents,  Lincoln  and 


66  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Davis,  left  their  homes  and  set  out,  the  one  for 
Washington  and  the  other  for  Montgomery.  Early 
the  same  month  the  Confederate  States  had  been 
formed.  At  half  past  four  on  the  morning  of 
April  12th,  the  first  shell  burst  over  Fort  Sumter, 
inaugurating  four  years  of  Civil  War. 

In  the  Official  Records  of  the  Union  and  Con- 
federate Armies,  there  are  322  entries  of  the 
name  of  Scott,  but  these  entries  do  not  by  any 
means  indicate  the  total  number  of  Scotts  en- 
rolled. The  Union  records  are  said  to  be  to  a 
great  extent  complete,  but  those  of  the  Con- 
federacy are  in  many  respects  deficient.  Further, 
some  of  the  States  and  Territories  to  whom  no 
quotas  were  assigned,  furnished  men  and  many 
men  were  enrolled  on  short  enlistments.  It  is 
especially  worthy  of  note  that  the  plan  of  pub- 
lication of  the  Official  Records  was  drawn  up  by 
a  Scott,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Robert  N.  Scott,  being 
engaged  on  the  work  from  1877  until  1887.  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Robert  Nicholson  Scott  was  born  at 
Winchester,  Franklin  County,  Tennessee,  January 
21st  1838,  the  son  of  W.  A.  Scott,  D.D.  Com- 
missioned Lieutenant  in  4th  Infantry,  January  1857 
and  Captain  1861,  in  which  latter  year  he  joined 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  Colonel  Scott  was 
wounded  and  mentioned  for  gallant  and  meritori- 
ous service  in  the  Battle  of  Gaines  Mill,  27th 
June  1862;  also  was  Assistant  Adjutant-General 
in  the  formation,  by  General  Casey,  of  the  Pro- 
visional Brigades  and  Divisions.  Was  Senior  Aide- 
de-Camp  to  General  Halleck  and  served  at  the  siege 
of  Yorktown.  Major  1879  and  Lieutenant-Colonel 
1885.  Died  1887. 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  67 

Among  officers  named  Scott  in  the  United  States 
Army  in  the  Civil  War  were:  Lieutenant-General 
Winfield  Scott;  Major-General  Robert  K.  Scott; 
Brigadier-General  George  Washington  Scott;  Briga- 
dier-General Rufus  Scott;  Lieutenant-Colonel 
George  Edward  Scott;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Henry 
Bruce  Scott;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Robert  N.  Scott; 
Lieutenant-Colonel  William  H.  Scott;  Major  George 
E.  Scott;  Captain  David  Wilson  Scott;  Captain 
Douglas  Marshall  Scott;  Captain  James  Robert 
Scott;  Captain  James  W.  Scott;  Captain  Jesse  E. 
Scott;  Captain  John  N.  Scott;  Captain  Winfield 
Scott;  Lieutenant  Harry  E.  Scott;  Lieutenant  John 
Scott;  Lieutenant  David  Inglis  Scott;  Lieutenant 
Eben  G.  Scott. 

In  addition  to  the  numbers  of  Organizations 
which  were  raised  in  the  States  and  Territories 
during  the  war,  the  President  ordered  drafts  and 
called  for  large  bodies  of  Volunteers.  The  List 
of  Field  Officers  of  these  Volunteer  and  Militia 
Forces  contain  the  names  of  several  Scotts :  Colonel 
George  W.  Scott,  61st  New  York  Infantry;  Colonel 
Harvey  D.  Scott,  Indiana  Militia;  Colonel  John 
Scott,  Missouri  Militia;  Colonel  John  Scott,  32nd 
Iowa  Infantry;  Colonel  Joseph  R.  Scott,  19th 
Illinois  Infantry;  Colonel  Robert  K.  Scott,  68th 
Ohio  Infantry;  Colonel  Thomas  Scott,  19th  Mis- 
souri Militia;  Colonel  William  T.  Scott,  3rd  Ken- 
tucky Infantry;  Colonel  William  W.  Scott,  43rd 
Pennsylvania  Militia;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Alexan- 
der Scott,  5th  West  Virginia  Cavalry;  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Charles  Scott,  6th  New  Hampshire  In- 
fantry; Lieutenant-Colonel  Donald  D.  Scott,  17th 
Wisconsin  Infantry;  Lieutenant-Colonel  George  H. 


68  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Scott,  83rd  Indiana  Infantry;  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Henry  B.  Scott,  4th  Massachusetts  Cavalry;  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Isaac  W.  Scott,  5th  Kentucky  Cav- 
alry; Lieutenant-Colonel  Jefferson  K.  Scott,  59th 
Indiana  Infantry;  Lieutenant-Colonel  John  W. 
Scott,  3rd  Wisconsin  Infantry;  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Newton  G.  Scott,  46th  Indiana  Infantry;  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel Oliver  H.  P.  Scott,  48th  Iowa  Infantry; 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Rufus  Scott,  19th  New  York 
Cavalry;  Major  Eli  F.  Scott,  83rd  Pennsylvania 
Infantry;  Major  George  E.  Scott,  V.  R.  C.;  Major 
James  N.  Scott,  1st  Ohio  Cavalry;  Major  Michael 
Scott,  29th  Pennsylvania  Infantry;  Major  Walter 
F.  Scott,  120th  New  York  Infantry;  Major  Wil- 
liam Scott,  8th  United  States  Coast  Artillery; 
Major  William  F.  Scott,  183rd  Ohio  Infantry; 
Major  John  Scott,  Illinois  Volunteers. 

Major-General  Robert  K.  Scott  was  the  third 
in  succession  in  a  direct  line  of  Scotts  who  served 
in  the  wars  of  this  country.  His  grandfather, 
Robert  Scott,  entered  the  Colonial  Army  and  served 
through  the  war  of  the  Revolution;  his  father, 
John  Scott,  served  in  the  War  of  1812.  Major- 
General  Robert  K.  Scott  was  born  in  Armstrong 
County,  Pennsylvania,  July  8th  1826.  On  the  out- 
break of  the  Civil  War  he  was  appointed  Major, 
with  instructions  to  organize  the  famous  68th 
Regiment  of  Ohio  Volunteers.  He  took  part  in 
the  reduction  of  Fort  Donelson,  the  two  days  Battle 
at  Pittsburg  Landing  and  the  siege  of  Corinth, 
and  in  July  1862  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Colonel.  On  October  3rd  he  was  assigned  to  a 
Brigade  and  took  part  in  the  Battle  of  Hatchie 
River,  receiving  honorable  mention  for  gallant  con- 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  69 

duct  and  promotion  to  the  command  of  a  Brigade. 
Was  in  action  at  Port  Hudson,  Raymond,  Jackson 
and  Champion  Hills.  He  was  with  General  Sher- 
man on  his  march  to  the  Sea  and  was  brevetted 
Major-General  for  his  conduct  as  an  officer.  In 
1868  and  1870  was  elected  Governor  of  South 
Carolina.  He  died  at  Napoleon,  Ohio,  13th  August 
1900. 

In  the  other  branch  of  the  service  of  the  Union 
Forces,  the  name  of  Scott  was  represented  with 
equal  credit  by  Rear-Admiral  Gustavus  Hall  Scott, 
United  States  Navy.  He  was  born  in  Virginia 
1812,  Midshipman  1828,  Lieutenant  1841,  Captain 
1863,  Rear-Admiral  1869.  Commanded  steamer 
"Keystone  State"  1861,  Gunboat  "Maratanza"  N. 
A.  B.  Squadron  1862-'3,  Steamer  "De  Soto"  1864, 
Steamship  "Canandaigua"  Blockade  Squadron  1865 
and  "Saranac"  Pacific  Squadron  1866-'7,  Rear- 
Admiral  Scott  was  Commander-in-Chief  of  the 
North  Atlantic  Squadron  until  his  retirement  on  the 
13th  June  1874.  He  died  at  Washington,  D.  C., 
23rd  March  1882. 

Captain  Francis  M.  Scott  was  with  the  Indiana 
Volunteers  in  the  first  battle  of  the  war  at  Phil- 
lippi,  West  Virginia,  on  3rd  June  1861,  when 
Volunteers  from  Indiana,  West  Virginia  and  Ohio 
opposed  the  Confederate  forces.  He  was  born  in 
Noblesville,  Indiana,  February  4th  1841,  the  son 
of  Samuel  Scott  whose  father  and  mother  had 
come  to  this  country  in  1811,  settling  in  Pennsyl- 
vania. Prior  to  the  war,  Captain  Scott  had  or- 
ganized a  Military  Company,  which,  in  response 
to  President  Lincoln's  proclamation  of  15th  April 
1861  for  75,000  Militia,  immediately  responded  and 


70  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

was  mustered  in.  He  was  present  at  the  Battles 
of  Shiloh,  Stone  River,  Chickamauga,  Mission 
Ridge,  Atlanta,  Jonesborough  and  in  Kilpatrick's 
raid  on  the  Atlanta  Railroad  in  August  1864.  His 
regiment  marched  to  the  Sea  with  General  Sher- 
man and  took  part  in  the  two  days  fight  at 
Waynesborough.  Captain  Scott  was  wounded  in 
the  leg  at  the  Battle  of  Stone  River  and  in  the 
eye  at  the  Battle  of  Chickamauga.  For  meritori- 
ous conduct  in  the  former  battle,  he  was  placed  on 
the  Roll  of  Honor  by  General  Rosecrans  and  was 
mustered  out  at  Savannah  31st  December  1864. 

Also  with  the  Union  forces  were  Captain  John 
Scott  with  the  "Black  Horse  Cavalry"  and  Captain 
Henry  D.  Scott,  16th  Massachusetts  Battery.  Ad- 
jutant William  F.  Scott,  born  Dayton,  Ohio,  27th 
December  1844.  Served  in  the  United  States  Vol- 
unteers from  private  to  Adjutant  of  the  4th  Iowa 
Cavalry.  He  was  author  of  "The  Historical  Roster 
of  the  4th  Iowa  Cavalry  Veterans"  and  "The  Story 
of  a  Cavalry  Regiment." 

With  the  Confederate  States  Army  were  Briga- 
dier-General Thomas  B.  Scott,  son  of  a  former  Gov- 
ernor of  Mississippi ;  Colonel  John  S.  Scott  in  com- 
mand of  the  1st  Louisiana  Cavalry,  C.  S.  A.,  and 
Colonel  C.  W.  Scott  in  command  of  the  44th  Vir- 
ginia Infantry  C.  S.  A. 

Enlisting  in  the  army  of  the  Confederacy  in 
1861,  Major  Charles  L.  Scott  was  elected  Major 
of  his  Regiment  and  participated  in  the  first 
Battle  of  Manassas,  July  1861.  He  was  severely 
wounded  in  the  right  leg,  which  wound  being 
ruptured  at  the  Battle  of  Seven  Pines  in  1862, 
compelled  him  to  retire  from  active  service. 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  71 

John  Zachary  Halliday  Scott,  born  at  Belair, 
Spottsylvania  County,  Virginia,  14th  March  1843, 
the  son  of  James  McClure  Scott,  was  a  student 
at  the  University  of  Virginia  at  the  outbreak  of 
the  War,  and  enlisted  in  the  Confederate  States 
Array  with  the  Cavalry  of  Wise's  Legion.  Served 
in  West  Virginia  under  Wise,  Floyd  and  Lee.  In 
1862  his  command  was  organized  into  the  10th 
Virginia  Regiment  and  was  in  close  and  constant 
touch  with  the  enemy  on  Johnston's  retreat  from 
Yorktown.  He  was  also  engaged  in  the  Battle  of 
Williamsburgh  and  included  in  Johnston's  capitula- 
tion of  Goldsboro,  26th  April  1865.  In  1869  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  and  practiced  law. 

Colonel  Thomas  Morton  Scott  of  the  Confederate 
States  Army  was  born  at  Cadiz,  Ohio,  on  25th  June 
1824.  He  traced  his  descent  from  Thomas  Scott, 
an  English  Member  of  Parliament,  who  was  one 
of  the  committee  which  signed  the  death  warrant 
of  Charles  I.  Colonel  Scott  served  as  Sergeant- 
Major  in  the  Mexican  War,  being  present  at  the 
Battles  of  Monterey  and  Buena  Vista.  On  the 
outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  he  raised  Company  I, 
9th  Texas  Infantry  of  the  Confederate  Army, 
serving  throughout  the  war  as  Captain.  In  1865 
he  was  assigned  to  duties  in  connection  with  the 
settlement  of  Indian  treaties  and  later  was  ap- 
pointed Colonel  on  Governor  Roberts  staff. 

An  artist  of  army  life  and  scenes  in  the  Civil 
War,  Julian  Scott  was  born  at  Johnson,  Lamoille 
County,  Vermont,  in  1846.  He  served  in  the  Na- 
tional Army  on  the  opening  of  the  war  in  1861 
and  while  in  a  Military  Hospital,  his  sketches 
attracted  much  attention.  He  consequently  became 


72  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

a  student  at  the  National  Academy,  New  York, 
in  1863.  Among  his  principal  pictures  are:  "The 
Blue  and  Gray,"  "In  the  Cornfield  at  Antietam," 
"Reserves  Awaiting  Orders,"  "Rear  Guard  at  White 
Oak  Swamp." 

A  report  concerning  Halleck's  Army  on  the 
banks  of  the  Tennessee,  states:  "With  it,  but  not 
of  it"  was  "the  Assistant  Secretary  of  War,  Thomas 
A.  Scott,  the  railway  king  of  the  future,  who  had 
come  to  advise  and  assist  Halleck."  Colonel  Scott 
was  the  first  Assistant  Secretary  of  War,  com- 
missioned under  the  Act  of  3rd  August  1861.  He 
was  born  at  Loudon,  Pennsylvania,  28th  December 
1824,  being  son  of  Thomas  Scott,  the  keeper  of 
"Tom  Scott's  Tavern"  on  the  old  turnpike  between 
Philadelphia  and  Pittsburg.  He  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Co.  when  it  was 
but  partly  constructed,  being  chosen  as  Vice-Presi- 
dent in  1860.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War, 
Governor  Curtin  placed  him  in  charge  of  the 
equipment  and  transportation  of  the  State  troops. 
He  was  commissioned  Colonel  of  Volunteers  in 
May  1861.  He  held  office  as  Assistant  Secretary 
of  War  during  Simon  Cameron's  unfortunate  tenure 
of  the  office  of  Secretary,  Colonel  Scott,  however, 
being  known  as  a  competent  Assistant  Secretary, 
whose  work  was  always  efficient.  When,  in  Jan- 
uary 1862,  the  President  dismissed  Cameron  and 
made  the  admirable  choice  of  Stanton  for  Sec- 
retary of  War,  Colonel  Scott  remained  as  As- 
sistant Secretary  until  June  1862,  when  he  re- 
signed to  return  to  his  railroad  work.  In  Septem- 
ber 1862,  General  Rosecrans'  Army  being  cut  off 
and  needing  reinforcements,  Scott  directed  the 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  73 

transportation  of  two  Army  Corps  to  its  relief. 
He  became  President  of  the  Pennsylvania  Co. 
organized  in  1871  to  operate  the  Western  lines, 
President  of  the  Union  Pacific  for  one  year  from 
March  1871  and  succeeded  to  the  Presidency  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Co.  in  1874.  He  also 
projected  the  Texas  Pacific  Railroad  Co.,  being  for 
many  years  its  President.  Resigned  as  President 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Co.  in  1880  and  died 
at  Darby,  Pennsylvania,  21st  May  1881. 


CHAPTER  VI. 

NT  A  PRECEDING  chapter  we  have  seen 
that  the  earliest  colonists  of  the  name 
of  Scott  settled,  in  the  main,  in  Vir- 
ginia and  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts. 
During  the  settlement  of  the  American  Colonies, 
branches  of  the  family  were,  however,  more  com- 
mon in  the  South  than  in  the  North,  conformity 
to  the  State  Church  in  Massachusetts,  before  being 
admitted  to  citizenship,  proving  somewhat  of  a 
deterrent  to  settlement  in  that  Colony.  In  order 
to  obtain  lands  for  themselves,  we  therefore 
find,  in  the  North,  later  arrivals  settling  inland 
or  on  the  frontier,  taking  up  lands  in  the  in- 
terior of  Pennsylvania  and  in  New  Hampshire, 
Vermont  and  Maine.  In  the  South,  the  Atlantic 
Coast  line  became,  by  degrees,  well  occupied,  and 
Scotts  who  had  landed  in  Virginia  scattered  through 
the  foothill  regions  and  North  and  South  Caro- 
lina. Gradually,  branches  of  the  family  pushed 
further  West,  across  the  mountains  into  Ohio, 
Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  joining  the  company  of 
virile  and  aggressive  pioneers,  who,  carving  perma- 
nent footholds  out  of  the  wild,  sent,  in  their  turn, 
sons  and  daughters  to  take  part  in  developing 
and  winning  the  West.  In  the  West  and  Northwest 
most  of  those  bearing  the  name  are  probably 
descended  from  the  Southern  branches  or  of  late 
immigration. 
In  every  State  and  Territory,  the  hardy  Scotts 

74 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  75 

have  been  pioneers  and  men  of  action,  taking 
such  active  part  in  the  strenuous  movements  of 
American  life,  that  today  the  name  is  found  in 
every  branch  of  politics,  arms,  industry  and  busi- 
ness. They  have  contributed  professors  and  teachers 
to  the  universities,  colleges  and  schools  of  their 
country;  bishops  and  clergymen,  judges  and  law- 
yers, bearing  the  name,  have  furnished  strength  to 
its  religious  and  judicial  life,  and  writers  and 
painters  have  added  to  its  literature  and  art. 

In  the  political  life  of  the  country  the  family 
has  been  represented  in  both  houses  of  Congress: 

John  Scott  was  United  States  Senator  from  Penn- 
sylvania from  1869-1875.  He  was  born  at  Alex- 
andria, Pennsylvania,  24th  July  1824.  Admitted 
to  the  bar  1846,  he  practiced  law  in  Huntingdon, 
Pennsylvania,  1846-1849.  Elected  member  of  the 
State  Legislature  1862.  Son  of  John  Scott,  Rep- 
resentative from  Pennsylvania  in  the  21st  United 
States  Congress. 

Nathan  Bay  Scott,  United  States  Senator  from 
West  Virginia,  1899,  re-elected  1905,  serving  from 
1899  until  1911.  Born  Guernsey  County,  Ohio, 
18th  December  1842.  He  was  engaged  in  mining 
in  Colorado  from  1859-1862.  Enlisted  as  private 
in  the  Union  Army  and  mustered  out  1865.  He 
then  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  glass  at 
Wheeling,  West  Virginia,  and  was  elected  State 
Senator  1882  and  1886.  Commissioner  of  Internal 
Revenue  1898.  Later  engaged  in  banking  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 

Thomas  Scott  was  member  of  the  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives from  Pennsylvania  in  the  1st  and  3rd 
Congresses,  1789-1781  and  1793-1795.  He  was  a 
native  of  Ohio. 


76  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

John  Scott,  Representative  from  Missouri  to  the 
17th,  18th  and  19th  Congresses,  served  from  1821- 
1827.  Born  in  Hanover  County,  Virginia,  18th 
May  1785,  graduated  from  Princeton  College  1807 
and  admitted  to  the  bar  1806.  He  was  Delegate 
from  Missouri  Territory  to  the  14th  Congress  and 
served  from  2nd  December  1816  to  January  13th 
1817  when  the  seat  was  declared  vacant.  Elected 
Delegate  to  the  15th  and  16th  Congresses,  1817- 
1821,  when  Missouri  becoming  a  State  he  was 
elected  Representative. 

John  Scott,  Representative  from  Pennsylvania 
to  the  21st  Congress,  1829-1831.  He  was  a  native 
of  Marsh  Creek,  near  Gettysburg,  Pennsylvania, 
and  was  in  business  as  a  tanner  and  shoemaker. 

Harvey  D.  Scott,  born  in  Ohio,  was  Representa- 
tive from  Indiana  to  the  34th  Congress  1855-1857. 
For  many  years  Judge  of  the  Superior  Court  at 
Terre  Haute. 

Charles  L.  Scott,  Representative  from  California 
to  the  35th  and  36th  Congresses,  1857-1861.  Born 
Richmond,  Virginia,  23rd  January  1827,  graduated 
from  William  and  Mary  College,  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  and  practiced  law  in  Richmond,  Virginia, 
and  later  in  Sonora,  California. 

John  G.  Scott,  Representative  from  Missouri  to 
the  38th  Congress  1863-1865.  Born  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  26th  December  1819,  he  moved  to 
Missouri  and  engaged  in  mining. 

William  L.  Scott,  Representative  from  Pennsyl- 
vania to  49th  and  50th  Congresses,  1885-1889.  He 
was  a  native  of  Washington,  D.  C.,  born  2nd 
July  1829,  and  settled  in  Erie,  Pennsylvania,  en- 
gaging in  coal  and  shipping  business,  also  con- 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  77 

struction  and  operation  of  railroads.  Mayor  of 
Erie  1866  and  1871. 

Owen  Scott,  Representative  from  Illinois  to  52nd 
Congress  1891-1893.  Born  Jackson  Township,  Ef- 
fingham  County,  Illinois.  Superintendent  of  Schools. 
Admitted  to  the  bar  January  1874,  he  practiced 
law  for  ten  years,  later  engaging  in  newspaper 
work  and  becoming  manager  of  the  Decatur  Herald. 

Charles  Frederick  Scott,  Representative  from 
Kansas  to  57th,  58th,  59th  and  69th  Congresses 
1901-1911.  Born  Allen  County,  Kansas,  7th  Sep- 
tember 1860.  Graduated  University  of  Kansas 
1881.  Editor  of  lola  Register. 

George  Cromwell  Scott,  Representative  from 
Iowa  to  62nd  and  63rd  Congresses,  1911-1915  and 
to  65th  Congress  1917-1919.  Born  Monroe  County, 
New  York,  8th  August  1864,  he  removed  to  Dallas 
County,  Iowa,  1880.  Admitted  to  the  bar  of 
Supreme  Court  of  Iowa,  1887. 

John  R.  K.  Scott,  Representative  from  Penn- 
sylvania to  64th  and  65th  Congresses,  1915-1919. 
Born  Bloomsburg,  Pennsylvania,  and  admitted  to 
the  bar  December  1895.  Member  of  House  of 
Representatives  of  Pennsylvania  1899,  1908,  1910, 
1912. 

Frank  Douglas  Scott,  Representative  from  Michi- 
gan to  64th,  65th  and  66th  Congresses.  Born 
Alpena,  Michigan.  Graduated  from  the  Law  De- 
partment, University  of  Michigan,  1901.  Was  five 
years  member  of  Michigan  State  Senate.  Presi- 
dent pro  tempore  of  Senate  1913-1914. 

Connected  with  the  66th  Congress,  now  in  ses- 
sion, are  the  names  of,  Robert  T.  Scott,  Private 
Secretary  to  the  Attorney- General ;  Walter  P. 


78  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Scott,  Assistant  Librarian  of  the  Senate;  Hugh 
L.  Scott,  Board  of  Indian  Commissioners;  Emmett 
J.  Scott,  A.M.  LL.D.,  Secretary-Treasurer  of  How- 
ard University;  George  E.  Scott  of  the  American 
Steel  Foundries,  a  Vice  Chairman  of  the  American 
National  Red  Cross. 

Frank  A.  Scott  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was  Chair- 
man of  the  War  Industries  Board.  He  resigned 
26th  October  1917. 

Three  members  of  the  family  have  been  Gover- 
nors of  States: 

Charles  Scott,  who  was  mentioned  in  Chapter  V, 
was  Governor  of  Kentucky  from  1808  to  1812. 

Abram  M.  Scott  was  the  7th  Governor  of  Missis- 
sippi, 1832-1833.  He  was  a  native  of  South  Caro- 
lina, but  at  an  early  age  went  to  Mississippi.  In 
1811  he  was  in  command  of  a  company  on  an 
expedition  against  the  Creek  Indians.  He  became 
a  leading  planter  and  was  one  of  the  five  Repre- 
sentatives from  Mississippi  in  the  first  State  Con- 
stitutional Convention  in  1817.  He  represented 
Wilkinson  County  for  several  terms  in  the  State 
Legislature,  and  served  twice  as  Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor.  His  term  as  Governor  was  notable  for  the 
Constitutional  Convention  of  1832,  which  recon- 
structed the  laws  of  the  State,  among  other  changes 
being  the  provision  for  a  Judiciary  elected  by  the 
people,  Mississippi  being  the  first  State  in  the 
Union  to  so  enact.  Governor  Scott  died  in  office 
from  Asiatic  cholera,  which  raged  through  the 
Mississippi  Valley  1832-1833.  He  died  12th  June 
1833.  His  son  Thomas  B.  Scott  was  a  Brigadier- 
General  in  the  Army  of  the  Confederacy. 

Major-General    Robert    K.    Scott,    Governor    of 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  79 

South  Carolina,  1868  and  1870.  Served  in  the 
Civil  War  as  described  in  Chapter  V. 

The  Judiciary  and  Bar  of  the  different  States 
contain  many  representatives  of  the  name  of 
Scott,  distinguished  among  whom  may  be  men- 
tioned : 

Thomas  Scott,  Chief  Justice  of  Ohio,  1810,  was 
born  at  Skipton  on  the  Potomac,  October  31st  1772. 
At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  was  licensed  by  Bishop 
Asbury,  to  preach  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  also  following  the  trade  of  a  tailor.  He 
studied  law  and  in  1801  removed  to  Chillcothe, 
Ohio,  where  he  commenced  the  practice  of  that 
profession.  He  was  the  first  Justice  of  the  Peace 
appointed  after  Ohio  became  a  State.  Was  clerk 
of  the  State  Senate  from  1804  to  1809,  when  he 
was  appointed  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Ohio.  In  the  following  year  he  became  Chief 
Justice,  which  office  he  held  for  five  years.  Mar- 
ried in  1796  to  Catherine  Wood.  He  died  at 
Chillicothe,  Ohio,  17th  February  1856. 

William  Scott,  Chief  Justice  of  Missouri,  1854 
to  1862.  Born  at  Warrenton,  Fauquier  County, 
Virginia,  7th  June  1804.  Admitted  to  the  bar 
1825.  In  1826  he  went  to  Franklin,  Missouri, 
where  he  began  practice.  Appointed  Judge  of 
the  9th  Judicial  Circuit  of  Missouri  in  1835,  he 
was  promoted  to  the  Supreme  Court  in  1841  and 
became  Chief  Justice  in  1854.  Died  at  Jefferson 
City,  Missouri,  18th  May  1862. 

Josiah  Scott,  Chief  Justice  of  Ohio,  1856.  He 
was  born  in  Washington  County,  Pennsylvania, 
1st  ^December  1803.  Graduated  from  Jefferson  Col- 
lege 1823,  admitted  to  the  bar  and  practiced  law 


80  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

at  Bucyrus,  Ohio.  Was  elected  to  the  State  Legis- 
lature in  1840,  and  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  Ohio 
in  1856,  and  served  as  Chief  Justice.  He  retired 
to  resume  law  practice  and  died  at  Bucyrus,  Ohior 
1879. 

John  M.  Scott,  Chief  Justice  of  Illinois;  born 
St.  Clair  County,  Illinois,  16th  August  1824.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1848  when  he  took  up 
residence  in  McLean  County,  where  he  practiced 
law  for  a  period  of  fifty  years.  In  1852  he  was 
elected  Judge  of  the  County  Court.  In  1862  he 
succeeded  to  a  vacancy  in  the  Circuit  Court,  being 
re-elected  without  opposition  at  the  end  of  his  term. 
Elected  to  the  Supreme  Court  and  re-elected  for 
a  second  term  in  1879,  being  the  first  native  born 
citizen  of  Illinois  to  hold  that  position.  He  served 
as  Chief  Justice  for  three  terms,  1875,  1882, 
1886. 

Elmon  Scott,  Chief  Justice  of  Washington,  1897, 
was  born  at  Isle  la  Motte,  Vermont,  November  6th, 
1863.  Was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  in  1881  re- 
moved to  Pomeroy,  Washington.  Elected  Mayor 
for  several  terms.  In  1889  was  elected  to  the 
Supreme  Bench,  re-elected  1892  and  in  1897  became 
Chief  Justice  of  the  State.  Served  for  over  nine 
years  on  the  Supreme  Bench  until  he  declined 
renomination. 

Guy  Charles  Scott,  Chief  Justice  of  Illinois, 
1906.  Born  Henderson  County,  Illinois,  14th  Au- 
gust 1863.  Admitted  to  the  bar  1886.  Justice  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Illinois  1903. 

Henry  Wilson  Scott,  United  States  District  Judge 
for  Oklahoma  Territory  1893-1896,  was  born  Sanga- 
mon  County,  Illinois,  26th  January  1866.  Admitted 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  81 

to  the  bar  1884,  he  was  appointed  Register,  United 
States  Land  Office,  Larned,  Kansas,  1889.  United 
States  District  Judge  1893.  Author  of  "Probate 
Law  and  Practice,"  "Distinguished  American  Law- 
yers" "The  Laws  of  Nations,"  "The  Corporate  In- 
stitution" and  other  legal  works. 

Francis  Markoe  Scott,  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  New  York,  1897-1918.  Born  New  York, 
14th  March  1848.  A.B.  College  of  the  City  of 
New  York,  1867 ;  A.M.  1869 ;  LL.B.  Columbia  Uni- 
versity 1869. 

Richard  Henry  Scott,  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Wyoming,  1906. 

Tully  Scott,  Associate  Justice  Supreme  Court  of 
Colorado,  1913,  was  born  at  St.  Paris,  Ohio,  12th 
July  1857  and  admitted  to  the  Kansas  bar,  1880. 
Elected  Presiding  Judge,  Colorado  Court  of  Ap- 
peals, and  Associate  Justice  Supreme  Court  of 
Colorado,  1913.  State  Senator  1907-1911. 

Judge  Walter  N.  Scott  of  Greenville,  South  Caro- 
lina. 

Judge  H.  William  Scott  of  Vermont. 

Sutton  Selwyn  Scott,  Lawyer,  was  born  at  Hunts- 
ville,  Alabama,  26th  November  1829.  Was  mem- 
ber of  the  Alabama  Legislature  1857-1860  and  Con- 
federate Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs,  1863. 
Member  of  the  Legislature  from  Russel  County, 
Alabama,  1884-1890.  United  States  Commissioner 
to  adjudicate  claims  in  New  Mexico  and  Colorado 
1885-1887.  Author  of  "The  Mobilians,"  "South- 
brooke"  and  many  articles  in  periodicals. 

Ruf  us  Leonard  Scott,  Lawyer,  born  Lanesborough, 
Massachusetts,  31st  March  1835.  Descendant  in 
the  sixth  generation  of  William  Scott,  who  settled 


82  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

in  Hatfield,  Massachusetts,  about  1668.  R.  L.  Scott 
was  admitted  to  the  New  York  bar,  1861,  and 
practiced  in  New  York  City. 

James  Brown  Scott,  Lawyer,  was  born  at  Kin- 
cardine, Bruce  County,  Ontario,  Canada,  3rd  June 
in  1866.  A.B.  Harvard,  1890;  A.M.  1891.  Prac- 
ticed law  at  Los  Angeles,  California,  1894-1899, 
where  he  organized  the  Los  Angeles  Law  School 
in  1896.  Dean  1896-1899.  Professor  of  Law  at 
Columbia  University,  University  of  Chicago  and 
George  Washington  University.  Solocitor  for  the 
Department  of  State  and  Secretary  of  the  Car- 
negie Endowment  for  International  Peace.  Pub- 
lished "Diplomatic  Documents  Relating  to  the  Out- 
break of  the  European  War";  "An  International 
Court  of  Justice"  and  similar  works. 

Joseph  Scott,  Lawyer,  born  at  Penrith,  Cumber- 
land, England,  16th  July  1867.  Came  to  America 
1889.  A.M.  St.  Bonaventure's  College,  Allegany 
1893;  LL.D.  1914.  Admitted  to  bar  1894,  practic- 
ing in  Los  Angeles,  California.  President  of  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce  1910.  Honorary  Vice-President, 
Panama-Pacific  International  Exposition. 

Albert  Woodburn  Scott,  Jr.,  Lawyer,  was  born  at 
San  Francisco,  November  6th  1869.  A.B.  Univer- 
sity of  California,  1891.  Practiced  law  1895-1899, 
being  later  engaged  in  industrial  affairs.  Director, 
Panama-Pacific  International  Exposition,  President 
San  Francisco  Street  Repair  Association  1906-1907, 
Civic  League  of  Improvement  Clubs  1907-1909. 

Austin  Wakeman  Scott,  lawyer  and  Professor  of 
Law,  born  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  31st  Au- 
gust 1884.  A.B.  Rutgers  College  1903 ;  LL.B.  Har- 
vard 1909.  Admitted  to  New  York  Bar  1910 ;  Mass- 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  83 

achusetts  Bar  1911.  Professor  Havard  Law  School 
1914.  Author  of  "Cases  on  Civil  Procedure." 

Frederick  Andrew  Scott,  Lawyer,  born  Terryville, 
Connecticut,  8th  November  1866.  B.A.  Yale  1889; 
LL.B.  1891.  Member  Connecticut  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives 1905,  1909,  1911.  Speaker  of  the  House 
1911. 

The  family  of  Scott  also  contributed  its  quota 
of  willing  and  devoted  workers  in  founding  and 
building  up  the  churches  of  different  denominations. 

Thomas  Fielding  Scott  was  the  first  Protestant 
Episcopal  Bishop  of  Oregon  and  Washington,  and 
sixtieth  in  succession  in  the  American  Episcopate. 
He  was  born  in  Iredale  County,  North  Carolina, 
12th  March  1807.  Graduated  from  the  University 
of  Georgia  (then  Franklin  College)  in  1829.  Rector 
of  St.  James  Church,  Marietta  and  Trinity  Church, 
Columbus.  Elected  Bishop  1853  and  consecrated 
1854,  he  served  his  Diocese  until  his  death  in 
1867. 

Levi  Scott,  Methodist  Episcopal  Bishop.  Born 
near  Odessa,  Delaware,  llth  October  1802.  Elected 
and  ordained  Bishop  in  1852.  The  degree  of  M.A. 
was  conferred  upon  him  by  Wesleyan  University 
and  that  of  D.D.  by  Delaware  College.  He  died 
at  Odessa,  Delaware,  13th  July  1882. 

Job  Scott,  born  at  Providence,  Rhode  Island, 
18th  October  1751  was  in  the  sixth  generation  from 
Richard  Scott  of  Providence  and  Catherine  Mar- 
bury,  referred  to  in  Chapter  IV.  He  was  a  Min- 
ister of  the  Society  of  Friends  and  a  writer  and 
speaker  of  remarkable  vigor.  He  made  long  jour- 
neys among  the  Friends,  and  finally  to  Ireland, 
where  he  died  on  22d  November  1793. 


84  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Walter  Scott,  one  of  the  Founders  of  the  Disci- 
ples or  Campbellites,  was  born  at  Moffat,  Dum- 
frieshire,  Scotland,  31st  October  1796.  He  was 
educated  at  the  University  of  Edinburgh  and  came 
to  this  country  in  1818.  He  died  at  May's  Lick, 
Kentucky,  23rd  April  1861. 

Orange  Scott,  born  at  Brookfield,  Vermont,  13th 
February  1800.  Was  ordained  Methodist  Clergy- 
man 1822,  and  ranked  among  the  most  prominent 
preachers.  He  left  the  Church  in  1842  and  organ- 
ized the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church  of  which  he 
was  President.  He  died  at  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
1847. 

Other  distinguished  clergymen  bearing  the  name 
in  the  earlier  history  of  the  Churches  in  America 
were: 

William  Anderson  Scott  who  was  born  at  Rock 
Creek,  Bedford  County,  Tennessee,  13th  January 
1813  and  entered  the  Presbyterian  ministry  in 
1835.  Was  editor  of  "The  Presbyterian"  for  three 
years  and  pastor  of  the  Forty-second  Street  Church, 
New  York  City,  from  1863  to  1870.  Also  of  St. 
John,  San  Francisco,  1870.  D.D.  University  of 
Alabama,  1844;  LL.D.  University  of  City  of  New 
York,  1872.  Died,  San  Francisco  14th  January  1885. 

Also  Hugh  McDonald  Scott,  born  Guysborough, 
Nova  Scotia,  31st  March  1848  and  ordained  to  the 
Congregational  ministry  1874.  Professor  of  Ec- 
clesiastical History  at  Chicago  Theological  Semi- 
nary. 

The  name  of  Scott  has  been  remarkably  promi- 
nent in  educational  work,  among  those  notable  being : 

Walter  Q.  Scott,  President  of  the  Ohio  State 
University,  1881-1883.  Born  at  Dayton,  Ohio, 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  85 

1841.  He  enlisted  in  the  Union  Army  during  the 
Civil  War,  serving  in  Sherman's  Cavalry  until  peace 
was  declared.  He  then  graduated  at  Lafayette  Col- 
lege, Easton,  Pennsylvania,  and  was  ordained  in 
February  1874,  being  installed  as  pastor  of  the 
Arch  Street  Presbyterian  Church,  Philadelphia, 
from  which  he  resigned  to  become  Professor  of 
Philosophy  at  Wooster  University. 

William  Henry  Scott,  President  of  Ohio  Univer- 
sity, 1873-1883,  and  of  Ohio  State  University,  1883- 
1895  in  succession  to  the  above  Walter  Q.  Scott. 
Born  at  Chauncey,  Ohio,  14th  September  1840. 
Graduated  at  Ohio  University,  1862.  Superinten- 
dent of  Public  Schools,  Athens,  Ohio.  Principal  of 
Preparatory  Department  of  Ohio  University.  En- 
tered the  ministry  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  1865;  Professor  of  Greek,  Ohio  University, 
1869,  and  President  1873,  resigning  to  become 
President  of  Ohio  State  University. 

Austin  Scott,  President  of  Rutgers  College,  1890. 
Born,  Maumee,  near  Toledo,  Ohio,  10th  August 
1848.  B.A.  Yale;  A.M.  University  of  Michigan; 
Ph.D.  Leipsic.  In  1872  in  Europe  in  connection 
with  the  arbitration  between  Great  Britain  and 
the  United  States.  Organized  the  Seminary  of 
American  History  at  Johns  Hopkins  University; 
Professor  of  History,  Rutgers  College,  1883 ;  Presi- 
dent, 1890.  Author  of  "A  History  of  New  Jersey" 
and  other  works. 

John  W.  Scott,  born  Beaver  County,  Pennsyl- 
vania, 22nd  January  1800.  Graduated  Washington 
College,  Pennsylvania,  1823.  Professor  of  Natural 
Science,  Washington  College,  1824-1828  and  Miami 
University  1838-1845.  Ordained  in  Presbyterian 


86  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Church  1830.  D.D.,  1837.  Professor  at  Oxford 
Female  College  for  ten  years.  Professor,  Hanover 
College,  1860-1868.  Principal  of  Presbyterian 
Academy,  Springfield,  Illinois,  and  Jefferson,  Penn- 
sylvania. Retired  in  1881,  after  fifty-seven  years 
teaching.  His  daughter,  Caroline  Scott,  married 
President  Benjamin  Harrison,  and  Dr.  Scott  was 
member  of  the  Presidential  family  at  the  White 
House  until  his  death,  November  29th  1892. 

Angelo  Cyrus  Scott,  born  Franklin,  Indiana,  25th 
September  1857.  Graduated  University  of  Kansas, 
1877,  A.M.,  1880;  LL.M.  Columbia  University  Law 
School,  1885;  Executive  Commissioner  for  Ok- 
lahoma, World's  Columbian  Exposition,  1893.  Mem- 
ber Territorial  Senate,  1895. 

William  Berryman  Scott,  born  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
12th  February  1858.  Graduated  Princeton  Uni- 
versity, 1877.  Studied  Royal  School  of  Medicine, 
London.  Ph.D.  University  of  Heidelberg;  Sc.D. 
Harvard,  1909;  Oxford,  1912.  Blair  Professor  of 
Geology,  Princeton,  1883.  Author  of  "An  Intro- 
duction to  Geology"  and  many  reports  and  mono- 
graphs. 

Charlotte  Angas  Scott,  born  Lincoln,  England. 
B.Sc.  London,  1882;  D.Sc.,  1885.  Head  of  De- 
partment of  Mathematics,  Bryn  Mawr  College, 
Pennsylvania,  1885.  Author  "On  the  Circuit  of 
Plane  Curves"  and  other  treatises. 

Fred.  Newton  Scott,  born  Terre  Haute,  Indiana, 
20th  August  1860.  Son  of  Harvey  D.  Scott,  mem- 
ber of  34th  Congress.  A.B.  University  of  Michigan, 
1884;  M.A.,  1888;  Ph.D.,  1889.  One  year  at  Uni- 
versity of  Munich,  Instructor  of  English,  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan,  1889-1890 ;  Assistant  Professor 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  87 

of  Rhetoric,  1890-1896;  Junior  Professor,  1896- 
1901;  Professor  of  Rhetoric,  1901.  Author  of 
"Aesthetics" ;  "Principles  of  Style" ;  "The  Standard 
of  American  Speech";  "The  Genesis  of  Speech"; 
and  joint  author  of  many  works. 

William  Amasa  Scott,  born  Clarkson,  Monroe 
County,  New  York,  17th  April  1862.  A.M.  Uni- 
versity of  Rochester,  1889;  LL.D.,  1911;  Ph.D. 
Johns  Hopkins  University,  1892.  Professor,  Uni- 
versity of  South  Dakota,  Johns  Hopkins  University 
and  University  of  Wisconsin.  Author  of  "Repudia- 
tion of  State  Debts,"  "Money  and  Banking," 
"Money"  and  other  works  on  economic  subjects. 

George  Winfield  Scott,  born  Adams,  New  York, 
25th  August  1875.  A.B.  Stamford  University,  1896 ; 
Cornell  University,  1896-1898.  Fellow  of  University 
of  Chicago,  1899-1900;  Columbia  University,  1900- 
1901 ;  University  of  Pennsylvania,  1901-1902 ;  LL.B. 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  1901.  In  Europe  for 
Library  of  Congress  to  report  on  law  and  docu- 
mentary literature  to  be  acquired,  1904.  Professor 
of  Law,  George  Washington  University,  1905-1906; 
Law  Librarian  of  Congress  and  Supreme  Court, 
1903-1907;  Professor  of  International  Law,  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania  and  Columbia  University. 
Author  of  "Naturalization  of  Aliens";  "The  Ger- 
man War  Code." 

Mary  Augusta  Scott,  Professor  of  English,  A.B., 
A.M.,  Vassar  College.  First  woman  Fellow  of 
Yale  University,  1892-1894;  Professor  of  English 
Language  and  Literature,  Smith  College,  1902. 

William  Earl  Dodge  Scott,  born  Brooklyn,  New 
York;  B.Sc.  Harvard,  1873;  curator  of  Depart- 
ment of  Ornithology,  Princeton  University;  author 
of  "Bird  Studies"  and  technical  works. 


88  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Nathan  Stone  Scott,  M.D.  Oberlin  College,  1885- 
1887 ;  Western  Reserve  University,  1889 ;  Dean  and 
Professor  of  Surgery,  Cleveland  College. 

Walter  Dill  Scott,  Professor  of  Psychology, 
Northwestern  University,  1908-1916. 

Colin  Alexander  Scott,  Ph.D.  Clark  University, 
Worcester,  Massachusetts ;  Professor  of  Psychology. 

William  B.  Scott,  Professor,  Princeton  Univers- 
ity; lecturer  and  writer. 

Jonathan  French  Scott,  Instructor  in  History, 
University  of  Michigan. 

John  W.  Scott,  Professor,  University  of  Wyom- 
ing. 

Arthur  Curtis  Scott,  Professor  of  Physics  and 
Engineering,  Rhode  Island  State  College;  Professor 
of  Electrical  Engineering,  University  of  Texas. 

It  is  not  possible,  in  a  work  of  this  nature,  to 
enumerate  all  members  of  the  great  fellowship  of 
Scotts  who  have  entered  into,  and  succeeded  in, 
every  field  of  endeavor  connected  with  the  industry 
and  business  of  the  country. 

Irving  Murray  Scott,  Shipbuilder  and  Ironmaster, 
was  born  at  Hebron  Mills,  Baltimore  County,  Mary- 
land, 25th  December  1837.  He  learned  the  iron 
and  woodworking  trades  under  Obed  Hussey,  the 
inventor  of  the  reaping  machine.  In  1860  he  was 
engaged  at  the  Union  Iron  Works,  San  Francisco, 
becoming  Superintendent  in  1863  and  finally  Gen- 
eral Manager.  Made  a  close  study  of  industrial 
establishments  in  Europe.  Was  one  of  three  ap- 
pointed to  meet  the  Japanese  Embassy  in  1879.  Re- 
gent of  the  University  of  California,  Trustee  of 
Leland  Stanford  University.  In  1891,  President 
of  the  California  Commissioners  to  the  World's 
Fair. 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  89 

Charles  Felton  Scott,  Electrical  Engineer,  was 
born  Athens  County,  Ohio,  19th  September  1864. 
He  was  educated  at  Ohio  and  Johns  Hopkins  Uni- 
versities. Assisted  Nicola  Tesla  in  the  develop- 
ment of  his  induction  motors  and  later  became 
Chief  Electrician  of  the  Westinghouse  Electric  & 
Manufacturing  Co.  Widely  known  in  the  electrical 
profession,  he  has  written  many  papers  read  before 
Electrical  Engineering  bodies.  President  of  the 
American  Institute  of  Electrical  Engineers  1902- 
1903. 

William  R.  Scott,  Vice-President  and  General 
Manager  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Co.,  was  born 
8th  November  1860  and  began  as  locomotive  fire- 
man. 

Frederic  William  Scott,  Banker,  was  born  Peters- 
burg, Virginia,  30th  August  1862.  In  March 
1918  he  was  appointed  member  of  the  Division 
of  Finance  and  Purchases  under  the  United  States 
Railroad  Administration. 

George  Scott,  native  of  Glasgow,  Superintendent 
of  the  Gold  &  Stock  Telegraph  Co.,  a  branch  of 
the  Western  Union,  invented  and  developed  the 
modern  "ticker." 

Edwin  Scott,  for  many  years  proprietor  of  the 
Scott  Mills,  New  York  City,  was  a  native  of 
Greene  County,  New  York. 

Frank  Hall  Scott,  President  of  the  Century  Co., 
with  which  company  he  was  actively  connected 
for  forty  years. 

Isaac  M.  Scott  of  Wheeling,  West  Virginia,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Wheeling  Steel  Works. 

Holton  H.  Scott,  born  in  Canada,  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Doherty  Operating  Co. 


90  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

E.  W.  Scott,  President  of  the  Provident  Savings 
Life  Assurance  Co.,  New  York. 

E.  H.    Scott,    of    Chicago,    President   of    Scott, 
Foreman  &  Co. 

Colonel  Walter  Scott,  President  of  Butler 
Brothers  of  New  York.  Colonel  of  the  New  York 
Scottish  Regiment. 

F.  B.    Scott,   President   of   the    Syracuse   Sup- 
ply Co. 

Thomas  A.  Scott  of  New  London,  Connecticut, 
President  of  P.  A.  Scott  Towing,  Pile  Driving  and 
Wharf  Building  Co.;  appointed  member  of  United 
States  Shipping  Board,  28th  May  1919. 

If  Johnson's  dictum  "The  chief  glory  of  every 
people  arises  from  its  authors,"  be  applied  to  a 
family,  then  the  Scotts  can  take  much  glory  to 
themselves.  As  will  be  seen  from  the  preceding 
records  of  American  members  of  the  family,  many 
were  writers  on  a  variety  of  legal,  historical  and 
educational  subjects,  and  to  these  may  be  added  a 
goodly  list  of  authors  and  editors,  bearing  the 
name,  who  have  made  noteworthy  contribution  to 
American  literature. 

Henry  Lee  Scott,  son-in-law  of  General  Winfield 
Scott,  and  already  referred  to  in  another  chapter, 
was  the  author  of  "A  Military  Democracy"  and 
"A  Military  Dictionary." 

Robert  N.  Scott,  Army  Officer,  already  mentioned 
as  in  charge  of  the  publication  of  the  Civil  War 
Records,  published  "A  Digest  of  the  Military  Laws 
of  the  United  States."  He  was  born  in  1838,  son 
of  William  Anderson  Scott,  below  named. 

John  Reed  Scott,  Author  and  Lawyer,  born 
Gettysburg,  Pennsylvania,  1869.  He  first  book  was 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  91 

published  in  1906,  "The  Colonel  of  the  Red  Hus- 
sars," followed,  among  others,  by  "Beatrix  of 
Clare";  "The  Princess  of  Dehra";  "The  Woman 
in  Question" ;  "The  Cab  of  the  Sleeping  Horse." 

Leroy  Scott,  born  Fairmont,  Indiana,  1875;  Edi- 
tor of  Woman's  Home  Companion,  1900-1901;  Au- 
thor, "The  Walking  Delegate";  "To  Him  That 
Hath";  "No.  13  Washington  Square";  "The  Shears 
of  Destiny." 

Anna  Miller  Scott,  born  Lockport,  Illinois;  Au- 
thor, "With  the  Fairies";  "Flower  Babies"  and 
other  works. 

Lucy  Jameson  Scott,  Author,  "Santa  Glaus 
Stories";  "David  Douglas  and  His  Wife";  "Gilead 
Guards";  "In  Circles  of  Light." 

Mansfield  Scott,  Author  of  "Behind  Red  Cur- 
tains." 

Julia  Scott,  pen  name  of  Mary  A.  Owen,  Author 
of  "Voodoo  Tales";  "Folklore  of  the  Musquakie 
Indians." 

Temple  Scott,  author,  "The  Friendship  of  Books" ; 
"The  Pleasure  of  Reading";  "The  Use  of  Leisure"; 
"A  Museum  for  a  Poet." 

Winfield  Lionel  Scott,  Author  of  "Azure  and 
Silver"  and  other  poems. 

John  Scott  of  Philadelphia  published  "Pulpit 
Echoes"  and  other  religious  works. 

William  Scott,  Author  and  Clergyman,  born  Am- 
sterdam, New  York,  Author  of  "The  Heart  of 
Faith." 

William  Anderson  Scott,  Presbyterian  Clergy- 
man of  San  Francisco,  was  the  Author  of  "The 
Bible  and  Politics";  "The  Church  in  the  Army." 

John  Milton  Scott,  Author,  "I  Am";  "The  Soul 
of  Socialism." 


92  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Martin  J.  Scott,  Author,  "God  and  Myself" ;  "The 
Hand  of  God." 

Thomas  Bodley  Scott,  Author,  "The  Road  to  a 
Healthy  Old  Age." 

Emma  Scott,  Author  of  "How  the  Flag  Became 
Old  Glory." 

William  Rufus  Scott,  Author  of  "The  Itching 
Palm,"  a  treatise  on  the  American  tipping  system. 

Samuel  Parsons  Scott  of  Hillsboro,  Ohio,  Lawyer, 
Author  of  "Through  Spain" ;  "History  of  the  Moor- 
ish Empire  in  Europe" ;  also  many  translations. 

Harry  Fletcher  Scott,  Author  of  numerous  edu- 
cational works. 

David  B.  Scott,  Author  of  "Scott's  History  of  the 
United  States"  and  other  histories. 

William  J.  Scott,  Author  "Historic  Eras  and 
Paragraphic  Pencilings." 

Charles  A.  Scott,  Author  of  "The  Chinese  Arbor 
Vitae" ;  "Provisions  of  the  State  Forest  Laws." 

William  Moore  Scott  published  numerous  works 
on  plant  culture. 

John  M.  Scott,  Author  "Milk  Production";  "Pig 
Feeding"  and  other  works  on  farm  management. 

Eugene  Wiley  Scott,  Author  of  entomological 
works,  published  by  the  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture and  the  Entomology  Bureau. 

Frank  Jesup  Scott,  Author  of  several  pamphlets, 
"Property  Without  Price";  "Evolution  of  Suf- 
frage"; "Communism"  and  others;  descended  from 
Thomas  Scott,  who  settled  in  Hartford,  October 
1636. 

Geneo  C.  Scott,  Author  of  "Fishing  in  American 
Waters." 

Charles  Scott  of  Tennessee  published  "The  Anal- 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  93 

ogy  of  Ancient  Craft  Masonry  to  Natural  and 
Revealed  Religion"  and  other  masonic  composi- 
tions. 

George  Scott,  himself  a  pilot,  published  "Scott's 
New  Coast  Pilot  for  the  Lakes." 

Harvey  W.  Scott,  Editor,  born  in  Illinois,  re- 
moved to  Oregon  and  in  1864  went  to  Portland, 
becoming  editor  and  part  owner  of  "The  Ore- 
gonian."  He  declined  appointment  as  Ambassador 
to  Mexico. 

Jesup  Wakeman  Scott,  Editor  and  writer  on  In- 
ternal trade  and  growth  of  cities.  He  gave  the 
land  to  the  City  of  Toledo,  which  enabled  that 
city  to  establish  a  University  of  Arts  and  Trades. 

James  W.  Scott,  born  Walworth  County,  Wis- 
consin, 1849.  His  father,  D.  Wilmot  Scott,  was 
editor  and  proprietor  of  a  newspaper  in  Galena, 
Illinois.  In  1875,  James  W.  Scott  removed  to 
Chicago  and  purchased  the  "Daily  National  Hotel 
Register."  In  May  1881,  in  connection  with  other 
journalists  from  the  city  dailies,  he  organized  and 
established  the  "Chicago  Herald,"  and  in  1890  the 
"Chicago  Evening  Post." 

Robert  Scott,  a  native  of  Partick,  Scotland,  came 
to  America  in  1883.  Editor  of  the  "Homiletic 
Review"  1905;  collaborator,  "Modern  Sermons  by 
World  Scholars";  "The  Church,  The  People  and 
The  Age";  "The  World's  Devotional  Classics." 

Charles  Payson  Gurley  Scott,  Etymological  Edi- 
tor of  the  Century  Dictionary. 

Richard  John  Ernst  Scott,  born  England  1863; 
B.A.  Durham  University,  England,  1885;  M.D. 
Cornell  University  Medical  School,  New  York, 
1899;  author,  State  Board  Examination  Series  and 
edited  numerous  medical  works. 


94  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

William  W.  Scott,  Editor  of  many  works  on 
motor  car  operation. 

The  family  of  Scotts  is  also  represented  in  the 
kindred  arts  of  painting,  music  and  the  drama. 

Julian  Scott  and  his  pictures  of  scenes  of  the 
Civil  War  have  been  referred  to  in  Chapter  V. 

Jeannette  Scott  exhibited  in  the  Societe  Na- 
tionale  des  Beaux  Arts,  Paris,  and  at  the  Chicago 
Exposition,  Pennsylvania  Academy  and  New  York 
Academy. 

Emily  Maria  Scott,  born  Springwater,  Livingston 
County,  New  York,  exhibited  a  large  still  life 
picture  in  the  Paris  Salon,  1889;  also  "Yellow 
Roses"  and  "Pink  Roses";  medal  Chicago  Exposi- 
tion 1893.  Roses  were  her  principal  study. 

Alfred  Atwood  Scott,  born  Chillicothe,  Ohio, 
1857;  Organist  and  Teacher  of  Music  for  35 
years.  Organist  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church,  Chil- 
licothe for  21  years;  organist  of  St.  Andrews 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  Aberdeen,  Washing- 
ton. 

Carlyle  Scott,  Pianist;  Professor  of  Music,  Uni- 
versity of  Minnesota. 

John  Prindle  Scott,  Composer,  born  Norwich, 
New  York,  1877;  composer  of  songs  and  quartets; 
also  a  trio  "Nocturne." 

Henri  Scott,  Basso,  born  Coatesville,  Pennsyl- 
vania, 1876;  oratorio  singer,  also  sang  on  concert 
tour  with  Caruso,  1908;  leading  basso,  Manhat- 
tan Opera  House,  New  York ;  Rome ;  Chicago  Grand 
Opera  Co.  and  Metropolitan  Opera  House,  New 
York. 

John  R.  Scott,  Actor,  born  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania, 1805.  He  made  his  first  appearance  at 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  95 

the  Park  Theatre,  New  York,  in  1829,  as  Malcolm 
in  Macbeth.  He  next  appeared  as  "Peter"  in  "Speed 
the  Plough"  at  the  Tremont  Theatre,  Boston.  He 
was  the  original  Master  Walter  of  The  Hunch- 
back, played  in  America  for  the  first  time  at  the 
Arch  Theatre,  Philadelphia  in  1832.  Visited  Eng- 
land professionally  in  1847.  His  repertoire  con- 
sisted of  Shakesperian  characters,  Massaniello, 
Wizard  of  the  Wave,  leading  parts  in  "Black  Eyed 
Susan"  and  similar  parts.  His  last  appearance 
was  at  Sanford's  Opera  House,  Philadelphia,  in 
1856,  appearing  in  the  third  act  of  Othello.  He 
died  the  same  year. 

Ainsley  Scott,  Actor,  was  bass  soloist  in  church 
choir.  With  Bryant  and  San  Francisco  Minstrels. 
He  was  also  with  Madame  Ristori  in  Australia, 
playing  Macbeth  to  her  Lady  Macbeth. 

Cyril  Scott,  Actor,  born  in  Ireland,  1866.  Came 
to  the  United  States  at  an  early  age.  Made  his 
debut  in  "The  Girl  I  Love";  with  Mrs.  Fiske, 
Richard  Mansfield,  E.  H.  Sothern.  He  has  ap- 
peared in  musical  comedy  and  in  many  produc- 
tions, including,  "The  Lottery  Man,"  "The  Prince 
Chap,"  "A  Gentleman  of  Leisure." 

A  distinguished  soldier,  Hugh  Lenox  Scott,  was 
born  at  Danville,  Kentucky,  22nd  September  1853. 
He  graduated  at  West  Point  Military  Academy, 
June  1876,  and  was  appointed  second  Lieutenant, 
9th  United  States  Cavalry.  He  was  promoted  first 
Lieutenant  of  7th  Cavalry  on  June  28th  1878; 
to  Captain  on  January  24th  1895;  to  Major  on 
May  12th  1898;  to  Lieutenant-Colonel  on  August 
17th  1899.  Colonel  Scott  served  in  the  Sioux  Ex- 
pedition of  1876,  the  Nez  Perce  Expedition,  1877, 


96  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

and  the  Cheyenne  Expedition  of  1878.  He  was 
Adjutant-General  of  the  2nd  and  3rd  Divisions  of 
the  1st  Army  Corps  from  May  1898  to  February 
1899,  of  the  Department  of  Havana  from  March 
1899  to  May  1900,  and  of  the  Division  of  Cuba, 
until  November  of  the  last  named  year.  He  acted 
as  Governor-General  of  Cuba  until  1902.  Served 
from  1903  to  1906  as  Governor,  and  Commander 
of  the  troops  in  the  Sulu  Archipelago,  Philippine 
Islands;  conquered  and  pacified  the  inhabitants 
and  abolished  slavery  and  the  slave  trade.  He 
was  appointed  Superintendant  of  the  United  States 
Military  Academy  at  West  Point,  1st  September 
1906,  which  office  he  retained  until  1910.  In 
command  of  the  3rd  Cavalry,  Fort  Sam  Houston, 
1912  and  of  2nd  Cavalry  Brigade,  Mexican  Border, 
1913.  Appointed  Chief  of  Staff,  United  States 
Army,  November  17th  1914  and  Major-General, 
1915.  In  France,  1917,  to  study  operations  on 
the  Western  Front  and  the  same  year  was  member 
of  the  American  Commission  to  Russia.  Was  In 
command  at  Camp  Dix  until  retirement. 

Mention  may  be  made  of  two  other  items  of  in- 
terest connected  with  the  name  of  Scott  in  America. 
Blanche  Scott  of  Rochester  was  one  of  the  first 
women  to  fly  an  aeroplane,  and  for  thirty-three 
years  a  member  of  the  family,  Captain  James  G. 
Scott,  was  keeper  of  the  Montauk  Point  Light. 


CHAPTER  VII. 

URNING  our  attention  once  more  to  the 
"old  country,"  we  find  that  Scott  is  now 
the  family  name  of  four  peers  in  Great 
Britain  and  Ireland;  two  of  whom  take 
descent  from  the  old  Border  Scotts. 

The  Duke  of  Buccleuch,  John  Charles  Montagu- 
Douglas-Scott  was  born  March  30th  1864  and  suc- 
ceeded to  the  title  in  1914.  He  is  the  seventh 
Duke  of  Buccleuch  and  ninth  Duke  of  Queens- 
berry.  Is  also  Marquess  of  Dumfriesshire,  Earl  of 
Drumlanrig  and  Sanquhar,  Earl  of  Buccleuch,  Vis- 
count Nith,  Thorthorwald  and  Ross,  Baron  Doug- 
las of  Kinmont,  Middlebie  and  Dornoch,  Baron 
Scott  of  Buccleuch,  Baron  Whitchester  and  Eskdaill, 
Baron  Scott  of  Tynedale  and  Earl  of  Doncaster. 
He  sits  in  the  House  of  Lords  under  the  last 
named  title.  The  estates  of  three  different  families 
have  become  united  in  the  family  of  Scott  of 
Buccleuch,  viz.,  those  of  the  family  of  Scott,  Dukes 
of  Buccleuch;  of  Douglas,  Dukes  of  Queensberry 
and  Montagu,  Dukes  of  Montagu.  His  eldest  son 
and  heir  is  Walter  John,  Earl  of  Dalkeith,  born 
1894,  in  the  Grenadier  Guards  and  an  Aide  de 
Camp  on  Personal  Staff.  His  second  son,  William 
Walter,  is  in  the  Hussars  and  received  the  Mili- 
tary Cross  during  the  European  War. 

Baron  Polwarth  is  also  of  a  Border  Scott  family, 
the  title  being  derived  from  Hugh  Scott,  great 
grandson  of  Walter  Scott  of  Highchester,  who  was 

97 


98  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Earl  of  Tarras  and  husband  of  Mary,  who  became 
Countess  of  Buccleuch  in  1651.  On  her  death, 
Walter  Scott  married  again  and  from  this  second 
marriage  the  present  line  is  descended.  The  Barony 
of  Polwarth  came  into  the  Scott  family  when  Hugh 
Hume,  third  Earl  of  Marchmont,  Viscount  Blason- 
berry  and  Baron  Polwarth  died  in  1793,  the  Earl- 
dom, Viscounty  and  Barony  created  1697  becoming 
extinct,  and  the  Barony  of  Polwarth  created  1690 
devolved  upon  his  grandson,  the  said  Hugh  Scott, 
who  became  third  Baron.  The  fifth  Baron,  the 
late  Henry  Francis  Scott,  assumed  the  additional 
family  name  of  Hepburne;  by  the  failure  of  the 
male  line  of  Sir  Robert  Scott  of  Murthockstone, 
the  chieftainship  of  all  the  Scotts  in  Scotland  de- 
volved upon  him. 

The  Earl  of  Clonmell,  Rupert  Charles  Scott, 
seventh  Earl,  was  born  10th  November  1877.  He 
succeeded  to  the  title  1898.  Descended  from  John 
Scott,  successively  Solicitor-General,  Attorney-Gen- 
eral, Prime  Sergeant  and  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Kings  Bench  in  Ireland;  created  Earl  of  Clonmell 
in  1793. 

The  Earl  of  Eldon,  John  Scott  was  born  8th 
November  1845  and  succeeded  to  the  title  1898, 
being  the  third  Earl.  The  title  was  granted  to 
John  Scott,  Earl  of  Eldon,  Lord  High  Chancellor 
of  England,  an  account  of  whom  is  contained  in 
Chapter  III.  The  eldest  son  and  heir  is  the  Hon. 
Ernest  Stowell  Scott,  M.V.O.;  C.M.G. 

Many  of  the  old  Scottish  branches  of  the  family 
have  become  extinct  and  newer  lines  of  descent 
arisen.  But  of  the  old  branches,  some  still  remain. 

Of  the  Scotts  of  Ancrum,  Sir  William  Monteath 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  99 

Scott,  seventh  and  last  Baronet,  died  in  1902.    He 
left  one  daughter,  Constance  Emily. 

Sir  Francis  Montagu  Sibbald  Scott,  fifth  Baronet, 
is  the  present  representative  of  the  branch  of 
Scott  of  Dunninald,  Forfarshire. 

The  family  of  Scott  of  Gala  is  represented  by 
John  Henry  Francis  Kinnaird  Scott  of  Gala,  County 
of  Selkirk,  born  1859.  As  mentioned  in  a  pre- 
ceding chapter,  this  branch  is  descended  from 
Hugh,  son  of  Sir  Walter  Scott  of  Harden  ("Auld 
Wat"). 

The  head  of  the  Scotts  of  Melby,  Robert  Thomas 
Scott  of  Melby,  Shetland  is  descended  from  the 
second  son  of  the  celebrated  Sir  John  Scott  of 
Scotstarvet,  Director  of  the  Chancery. 

Walter  Scott  of  Raeburn  and  Lessuden  is  de- 
scended from  Walter  Scott  of  Raeburn,  third  son 
of  Sir  William  Scott,  the  son  of  "Auld  Wat"  of 
Harden. 

The  Scotts  of  Malleny  are  represented  by  Car- 
teret  Cunningham  Scott  of  Malleny.  As  previously 
mentioned,  this  family  is  a  branch  of  the  house 
of  Buccleuch. 

Anna  Katherine  Scott  of  Brotherton  succeeded 
her  father  in  1897.  The  Scotts  of  Brotherton 
branched  from  the  Scotts  of  Logic. 

The  Scotts  of  Synton  are  not  now  represented 
in  the  direct  male  line  of  descent.  John  Scott  of 
Synton  who  died  in  1796,  a  minor  and  unmarried, 
was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  sister,  Catherine  Scott, 
who  married  John  Corse  of  Bughtrig,  when  he 
assumed  the  name  and  arms  of  Scott  of  Synton  in 
addition  to  his  own.  The  family  of  Corse-Scott 
of  Synton  is  now  represented  by  John  Corse-Scott 


100  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

of  Synton  in  the  County  of  Selkirk  and  Satchells 

in  the  County  of  Roxburgh. 

The  Scotts  of  Wauchope  are  descended  from 
Walter  Scott,  the  laird  of  Buccleuch,  who  was 
slain  in  the  streets  of  Edinburgh,  in  1552,  in  the 
fued  with  the  Kerrs  of  Cessford,  through  his  nat- 
ural son  Walter  Scott  of  Goudilands.  This  Walter 
Scott  is  described  as  a  man  of  good  points  and 
great  bravery,  and  at  the  raid  of  Reidswyre,  1575, 
the  laird  of  Buccleuch  being  very  young,  this 
Walter  Scott  led  the  clan.  He  was  also  at  the 
release  of  Kinmont  Willie.  The  name  is  now  Mc- 
Millan-Scott, the  additional  surname  having  been 
assumed  in  1816,  in  accordance  with  the  conditions 
of  the  entail  of  the  then  Scott  of  Wauchope's  ma- 
ternal grandfather's  estate. 

The  family  of  Constable-Maxwell-Scott  of  Ab- 
botsford  is  now  representative  of  the  family  of 
Sir  Walter  Scott,  the  illustrious  poet  and  novelist, 
whose  heir,  Sir  Walter  Scott  the  second  Baronet, 
died  without  issue,  being  succeeded  by  his  nephew, 
Walter  Scott  Lockhart  Scott  who  died  unmarried, 
and  was  succeeded  by  his  sister  Charlotte  Harriet 
Jane  Hope-Scott,  from  whom  the  present  family  is 
descended. 

Among  branches  of  the  family  in  England  are: 
The  Scotts  of  Betton,  represented  by  George 
John  Scott,  of  Betton  Strange,  Shropshire.  His 
mother,  Sydney  Louisa  Scott,  only  surviving 
daughter  of  George  Jonathan  Scott,  married,  in 
1868,  Major  William  Edington  Stuart,  late  15th 
Hussars.  By  Royal  License  the  family  retained  the 
name  and  arms  of  Scott.  She  was  descended  from 
Richard  Scott  of  Scots  Halls,  born  1544,  who  settled 
in  Shropshire. 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  101 

Sir  Douglas  Edward  Scott,  seventh  Baronet,  of 
Great  Barr,  Staffordshire,  is  descended  from  John 
Scott,  who  settled  in  Shropshire  about  1650. 

The  Scotts  of  Lytchett  Manor,  Dorsetshire,  are 
represented  by  Sir  Samuel  Edward  Scott,  sixth 
Baronet. 

Archibald  Edward  Scott  is  the  present  repre- 
sentative of  the  family  of  Rotherfield  Park  in  the 
County  of  Hants. 

Three  Baronets  of  later  creation  are : 

Sir  John  Scott,  2nd  Baronet  of  Beauclerc,  Bywell 
St.  Andrews,  Northumberland. 

Sir  Samuel  Haslam  Scott,  2nd  Baronet,  of  Yews, 
Windermere,  Westmoreland. 

And  the  distinguished  Admiral,  Sir  Percy  More- 
ton  Scott,  K.C.B.;  K.C.V.O.;  LL.D.;  first  Baronet 
of  Witley,  Surrey,  born  10th  July  1853.  He 
was  educated  at  University  College,  London,  and 
the  Royal  Naval  College.  Entered  the  Royal  Navy 
in  1866 ;  served  Ashantee  War,  1873-1874  (medal) ; 
Congo  Expedition,  1875  (despatches,  promoted) ; 
Egyptian  War,  1882  (despatches,  medal,  bronze 
star,  fourth  class  Medjidie),  South  African  War, 
1899-1900,  when  he  devised  special  mounting  for 
the  naval  gun  used  for  defense  and  relief  of  Lady- 
smith  (despatches,  C.B.),  China,  1900  (C.V.O.). 
Sir  Percy  Scott  invented  the  system  of  night  sig- 
nalling now  used  in  the  Royal  Navy.  Member 
of  the  Ordnance  Committee;  was  in  command  of 
Gunners  School;  Naval  Aide  de  Camp  to  His  Ma- 
jesty; Inspector  of  Naval  Target  Practice,  1905- 
1907;  in  command  of  First  Cruiser  Squadron, 
1908-1909;  special  service  at  the  Admiralty,  1914; 
later  in  charge  of  gunnery  defences  of  London. 


102  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Several  members  of  the  family  have  received  the 
honor  of  knighthood. 

The  Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Charles  Stewart  Scott  was 
knighted  in  1896,  K.C.M.G.;  G.C.M.G.,  1899;  G.C.B. 
1899  and  appointed  of  the  Privy  Council  1898.  He 
was  born  in  Ireland,  1838  and  entered  the  diplo- 
matic service  1858.  Attache,  Secretary  and  Charge 
d'Affaires  at  different  Legations  and  Embassies. 
Minister  to  Swiss  Confederation;  Envoy  Extraor- 
dinary, Copenhagen;  Ambassador  to  the  Court  of 
Russia. 

Major-General  Sir  Arthur  Binny  Scott,  K.C.B., 
born  1862.  Served  in  the  South  African  and 
European  Wars. 

Major-General  Sir  Charles  Henry  Scott,  K.C.B., 
Colonel  Commandant  R.A. ;  member  of  the  Council 
of  the  Governor-General  of  India  1905-1909. 

Sir  James  George  Scott,  K.C.I.E.,  1901.  Born 
Dairsie,  Fifeshire,  1851.  Joined  Burma  Commis- 
sion in  1886;  received  thanks  of  Commander-m- 
Chief  and  Governor-General  in  Council,  1888 ;  mem- 
ber of  several  boundary  commissions.  Author, 
"The  Burman,  His  Life  and  Notions";  "France 
and  Tongking"  and  other  works  on  Burma. 

Sir  Buchanan  Scott,  K.C.I.E.,  1904;  Indian  ap- 
pointments; Senior  Master  of  the  Mint,  Calcutta, 
1897-1904. 

Sir  James  Scott,  Kt.,  created  1911 ;  born  Broughty 
Ferry,  1838.  Engineer. 

Sir  Benjamin  Scott,  Kt.,  created,  1904;  several 
times  Mayor  of  Carlisle. 

Sir  John  Harley  Scott,  Kt.,  created  1892;  High 
Sheriff,  Mayor  and  Alderman  of  Cork. 

Others  bearing  the  name  who  have  been  knighted 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  103 

are  referred  to  among  the  following  notable  Scotts 
of  England,  Scotland,  Ireland,  Canada  and  other 
parts  of  the  British  Empire. 

Alexander  Scott,  the  old  Scottish  poet,  wrote  be- 
tween 1545  and  1568.  Some  of  his  "sweit  tunged" 
poems  are  "Ane  New  Yeir  Gift  to  Queen  Mary 
quhen  scho  came  first  Hame";  "To  Luve  Un- 
luvit";  "Ladies,  be  war,"  and  "Lo,  quhat  it  is  to 
Lufe." 

A  father  and  two  sons,  distinguished  figures 
in  the  art  of  the  early  nineteenth  century,  follow. 

Robert  Scott,  the  father,  was  born  at  Lanark 
in  1777.  Engraver.  His  best  work  was  in  land- 
scape, a  series  of  twenty  views  of  "Scenery  of 
Edinburgh  and  Midlothian"  being  his  last  pro- 
duction. 

David  Scott,  his  elder  son,  Scottish  Historical 
Artist,  was  born  in  Parliament  Stairs,  Edinburgh, 
1806.  Among  his  best  known  works  are,  the  huge 
picture  "Lot  and  His  Daughters";  "The  Hopes 
of  Early  Genius  Dispelled  by  Death"  exhibited  at 
the  Scottish  Academy;  "The  Death  of  Sappho"; 
"Wallace  Defending  Scotland";  and  the  great  pic- 
ture, "Vasco  da  Gama,  the  Discoverer  of  India,  En- 
countering the  Spirit  of  the  Storm  as  He  Passes 
the  Cape  of  Good  Hope."  This  picture  is  now  in 
the  Trinity  House  at  Leith.  "The  Vintager"  and 
"Ariel  and  Caliban"  are  in  the  National  Gallery  at 
Edinburgh.  He  last  picture  was  "Hope  Passing 
Over  the  Sky  of  Adversity." 

William  Bell  Scott,  the  younger  son,  Poet  and 
Painter,  was  born  in  1811  at  St.  Leonards,  Edin- 
burgh. His  pictures  included  "The  Old  English 
Ballad  Singer" ;  "The  Jester."  He  exhibited  at  the 


104  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Royal  Academy.  His  writings  were  very  numerous 
and  included  poems  and  art  memoirs. 

Andrew  Scott,  Scottish  Poet,  was  born  1757. 
He  was  at  first  a  cowherd,  later  serving  with  his 
Regiment  in  the  American  War  of  Independence. 
He  was  a  prisoner  of  war  on  Long  Island,  but 
returned  to  Scotland  in  1784.  In  1811  issued 
"Poems,  Chiefly  in  the  Scottish  Dialect"  and  two 
other  volumes  in  1821  and  1826. 

Lady  John  Douglas  Scott,  born  1810,  was  a  com- 
poser of  Scottish  songs.  Her  principal  claim  to 
remembrance,  musically,  is  her  composition  of  the 
song  "Annie  Laurie,"  first  published  in  1838.  She 
is  sometimes  credited  with  being  the  composer,  or 
adapter,  of  "The  Banks  of  Loch  Lomond." 

General  Thomas  Scott,  born  1745,  was  the  son 
of  John  Scott  of  Malleny.  He  served  in  Hesse 
and  in  America  during  two  campaigns  under  Gen- 
eral Burgoyne.  Later  served  in  the  Netherlands, 
Cape  of  Good  Hope,  and  against  Tipu  Sultan, 
being  present  at  the  siege  of  Seringapatam. 

Admiral  Sir  James  Scott,  born  1790,  a  Cadet  of 
the  Scotts  of  Raeburn,  saw  much  service  against 
the  French,  in  the  War  of  1812,  in  the  West  Indies 
and  China. 

John  Scott,  Engraver,  born  1774.  His  two  mas- 
terpieces are  "Breaking  Cover,"  after  Reinagle 
and  the  "Death  of  the  Fox,"  after  Gilpin. 

Samuel  Scott,  Artist,  and  friend  of  Hogarth. 
His  picture  "A  View  of  the  Tower  of  London" 
was  exhibited  at  the  Royal  Academy  and  his 
portrait  by  Hudson  and  four  of  his  pictures  are 
in  the  National  Gallery. 

Admiral,  Lord  Charles  Scott  was  present,  as  a 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  105 

Midshipman,  in  the  Black  Sea  during  the  Russian 
War.  He  was  officer  in  command  of  the  "Bac- 
chante" during  the  cruise  of  King  George  and 
his  brother,  the  late  Duke  of  Clarence.  Brother 
of  the  sixth  Duke  of  Buccleuch. 

Benjamin  Scott,  born  1814,  was  Chamberlain  of 
the  City  of  London.  It  was  through  his  wonder- 
ful knowledge  of  finance  that  the  Corporation  of 
London  lost  not  a  penny  of  its  outstanding  loans, 
amounting  to  seven  hundred  thousand  pounds,  on 
Black  Friday  1866. 

Sir  George  Gilbert  Scott,  R.A.,  the  celebrated 
Architect,  was  born  1811.  One  of  his  earlier  works 
was  the  restoration  of  Chesterfield  Church.  He 
won  European  reputation  by  winning  the  open 
competition  for  the  Church  of  St.  Nicholas  at 
Hamburg.  He  restored  several  cathedrals  and  was 
architect  of  the  addition  to  Exeter  College,  Ox- 
ford. In  1849  he  was  engaged  in  the  restoration 
of  Westminster  Abbey.  Was  architect  of  the  India, 
Home  and  Colonial  Offices.  In  1864,  Scott  was 
engaged  in  carrying  out  the  Albert  Memorial,  and 
later  the  re-arrangement  of  Wolsey's  Chapel  at 
Windsor  Castle. 

Giles  Gilbert  Scott,  F.R.I.B.A.;  Architect,  grand- 
son of  the  above,  was  born  1880.  Among  his  prin- 
cipal works  are,  Liverpool  Cathedral;  Church  of 
the  Annunciation,  Bournemouth;  and  restoration 
of  Chester  Cathedral. 

Robert  Scott,  Lexicographer,  born  1811,  was 
educated  at  Shrewsbury  School  and  Christ  Church, 
Oxford.  He  was  Dean  of  Rochester  and  Master 
of  Balliol.  As  a  Greek  scholar  he  has  had  few 
equals.  His  life's  work  was  his  collaboration  with 


106  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Dean  Liddell  in  the  Greek  Lexicon  which  bears 
their  names. 

Edward  John  Long  Scott,  Librarian,  M.A.; 
D.  Litt  Oxon;  was  born  1840.  Keeper  of  MSS. 
and  Egerton  Librarian,  British  Museum,  and 
Keeper  of  Muniments,  Westminster  Abbey. 

Rev.  Charles  Anderson  Scott,  D.D.,  born  1859. 
Dunn  Professor  of  New  Testament  Theology,  Col- 
lege of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  England.  Au- 
thor, "The  Book  of  the  Revelation";  "Evangelical 
Doctrine,  Bible  Truth";  "Ulfilas,  Apostle  of  the 
Goths." 

Professor  William  A.  Scott;  A.R.H.A. ;  A.R.I.B.A. ; 
M.S.A.;  F.R.I. A.I.;  Professor  of  Architecture,  Na- 
tional University  of  Ireland.  Among  other  works 
he  designed  the  Cathedral  for  Galway. 

Hon.  Mrs.  Maxwell  (Mary  Monica)  Scott,  great- 
granddaughter  of  Sir  Walter  Scott.  Author  of 
"The  Tragedy  of  Fotheringay" ;  "Abbotsford  and 
Its  Treasures";  "Joan  of  Arc";  "St.  Francis  de 
Sales  and  His  Friends." 

Margaret  Scott,  born  1841,  Author,  "Every  Inch 
a  Soldier";  "Under  Orders";  "Princes  in  India." 

Lady  Kathleen  Scott,  Sculptor,  made  several  pub- 
lic monuments  and  portraits.  Created  Lady  Scott 
in  recognition  of  the  work  of  her  husband,  the 
late  Captain  Robert  Falcon  Scott,  Explorer,  men- 
tioned  below. 

Tom  Scott,  R.S.A.,  Water  Color  Painter,  born 
at  Selkirk,  12th  October  1854.  Among  his  well 
known  pictures  are  "The  Otter  Hunt";  "Meet  of 
Foxhounds  at  Riddell";  "Mosstroopers  Returning 
from  a  Raid";  "St.  Mary's  Loch";  "A  Hayfield  in 
Ettrick";  and  "Auld  Wat  o'  Harden." 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  107 

Michael  Scott,  Author  of  "Tom  Cringle's  Log"; 
"The  Cruise  of  the  Midge"  and  other  stories. 

Clement  Scott,  Author,  Dramatist,  Critic  and 
Song  Writer. 

Georges  Scott,  Artist  of  the  painting  of  King 
George  V,  posed  for  at  Buckingham  Palace  and 
hung  in  the  Paris  Salon. 

William  Robert  Scott,  M.A.;  D.  Phil.;  Litt.  D.; 
Hon.  LL.D.  (St.  Andrews).  Fellow  of  the  British 
Academy  and  Adam  Smith  Professor  of  Political 
Economy  in  the  University  of  Glasgow. 

Dunkinfield  Henry  Scott,  Botanist,  M.A.;  LL.D.; 
D.Sc.;  Ph.D.;  Foreign  Secretary  of  the  Royal  So- 
ciety. Professor  of  Botany.  Hon.  Keeper  of  the 
Jodrell  Laboratory,  Royal  Gardens,  Kew,  1892-1906. 
Author  of  many  botanical  works. 

Robert  Falcon  Scott,  R.N. ;  C.V.O.,  Antarctic  Ex- 
plorer. Commander  of  the  National  Antarctic  Ex- 
pedition, 1900-1904;  F.R.G.S.;  Commander  of  the 
British  Antarctic  Expedition,  1910.  Born  at  Devon- 
port,  1868.  Entered  the  Royal  Navy  1882,  Com- 
mander, 1900,  Captain,  1904.  Gold  medals,  Royal 
Geographical  Society,  Royal  Scottish  Geographical 
Society,  American,  Swedish,  Danish,  Philadelphia 
and  Antwerp  Geographical  Societies.  Author  of 
"The  Voyage  of  the  Discovery." 

Two  brothers,  well  known  on  the  English  Turf, 
John  and  William  Scott  were  born  respectively  in 
1794  and  1797.  John  was  a  Trainer  and  William 
a  Jockey.  John  trained  six  Derby  winners  and 
eight  Oaks  winners.  William  rode  the  winner  of 
the  Derby  four  times,  the  winner  of  the  Oaks 
three  times,  and  the  winner  of  the  St.  Leger  nine 
times. 


108  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Like  many  other  families  from  the  "Land  o' 
Cakes,"  the  Scotts  have  taken  a  prominent  part 
in  the  growth  and  history  of  the  Dominion  of 
Canada,  and  other  parts  of  the  British  Empire. 

Hugh  Erskine  Scott,  born  Dundee,  Scotland, 
came  to  Canada  and  was  appointed  Manager  of 
the  Quebec-Montreal  Steamship  Line.  In  connec- 
tion with  the  Rebellion  of  1837,  he  received  the 
public  thanks  of  the  Governor-General,  Sir  John 
Colborne,  for  arrangements  made  in  relation  to 
the  transportation  of  troops,  after  the  close  of 
navigation. 

James  Guthrie  Scott,  son  of  the  above,  takes 
descent  on  the  maternal  side  from  the  Notary 
Leblanc,  spoken  of  in  Longfellow's  "Evangeline." 
Born  at  Quebec  in  1847,  he  built  the  Quebec  & 
Lake  St.  John  and  Great  Northern  Railways,  being 
General  Manager  of  the  latter  road.  Also,  one 
of  the  promoters  of  the  Grand  Trunk  Pacific  Rail- 
way, Quebec  &  James  Bay  Railway  Co.  and  the 
Quebec  Transport  Co.  Served  during  the  Fenian 
Raid,  medal  and  two  clasps.  President,  Quebec 
Board  of  Trade. 

Hon.  David  Lynch  Scott,  Judge  of  Supreme 
Court,  was  born  21st  August  1845.  Barrister, 
1870;  Mayor  of  Regina,  1883;  K.C.,  1885;  raised 
to  Bench,  N.W.T.,  1894. 

Hon.  Walter  Scott,  born  London,  Middlesex,  On- 
tario, 1867.  Premier  of  the  Province  of  Saskatche- 
wan, 1905-1916.  President  of  Council  and  Min- 
ister of  Education. 

Duncan  Campbell  Scott,  born  1862.  Deputy 
Superintendent-General  of  Indian  Affairs,  Hon.  Sec- 
retary Royal  Society  of  Canada.  Author,  "The 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  109 

Magic  House"  (poems) ;  "Labor  and  the  Angels" 
(poems)  ;  "The  Life  of  Simcoe";  "In  the  Village  of 
Viger"  and  numerous  stories  and  poems. 

Rev.  Frederick  George  Scott,  C.M.G.,  1916;  M.A.; 
D.C.L.,  born,  Montreal,  1861.  Rector  of  St.  Mat- 
thews, Quebec;  Canon  of  Quebec  Cathedral.  Senior 
Chaplain  1st  Canadian  B.E.F.  (despatches,  C.M.G.). 
Sanford  Gold  Medal,  Royal  Canadian  Humane  So- 
ciety. Author,  "Soul's  Quest"  and  other  poems; 
"Elton  Haglewood";  "The  Key  of  Life";  "The 
Crown  of  Empire"  and  other  poems  written  at 
the  front. 

Lieutenant-Colonel,  His  Honor,  James  Henderson 
Scott,  Judge  of  the  County  Court  of  Lanark,  1914; 
born  Simcoe,  Ontario,  1858.  Called  to  the  Bar, 
1880;  K.C.,  1908;  Lieutenant-Colonel  commanding 
32nd  Regiment,  1891-1899.  Long  Service  Decora- 
tion. 

Hon.  Sir  Richard  William  Scott,  Statesman. 

Darcy  Scott,  born  Hull  Township,  Ottawa  County, 
Quebec,  1872.  Called  to  the  Ottawa  Bar,  1895; 
Assistant  Chief  Commissioner,  Board  of  Railway 
Commissioners,  1908. 

Frank  Scott,  born  Montreal,  1862.  Vice-Presi- 
dent and  Treasurer,  Grand  Trunk  Railway. 

Thomas  Smythe  Scott,  B.A.,  B.Sc.C.E.;  born 
1871.  Professor  of  Railways  and  Railway  Engi- 
neering, Queens  University. 

Frank  Stewart  Scott,  M.P.;  born  Gait,  1879. 
Elected  to  House  of  Commons  for  South  Water- 
loo, 1915. 

Charles  Summer  Scott,  F.C.A.;  born  England. 
Came  to  Canada,  1877.  President,  Banking  & 
Loan  Company,  Hamilton. 


110  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

Sir  Robert  Townley  Scott,  Kt,  I.S.O.;  Secretary, 
Postmaster-General's  Department  and  Permanent 
Head  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Australia  Telegraph 
Service,  1901;  born  1841  and  went  to  Australia, 
1848. 

John  Halliday  Scott,  M.D.;  M.R.C.S.,  Professor 
of  Anatomy,  Otago  University,  Australia;  Dean  of 
the  Faculty  of  Medicine. 

Ernest  Scott,  Professor  of  History,  University 
of  Melbourne,  Australia. 

Robert  Julian  Scott,  Professor  in  Charge,  School 
of  Engineering,  Canterbury  College,  New  Zealand. 
Chairman,  Commission  Government  Workshops; 
Chairman,  Munitions  Committee  for  New  Zealand. 

Colonel  Robert  George  Scott,  V.C. ;  Cape  Colonial 
Forces,  South  Africa.  Served  during  Gaika,  Galeka 
and  Zulu  Wars  (V.C.)  and  in  1899-1901  in  com- 
mand of  Scott's  Railway  Guards  during  South 
African  War.  (Despatches,  Queen's  Medal,  3  clasps, 
King's  Medal,  2  clasps,  D.S.O.). 

Colonel  John  Scott,  born  1844  at  Inverness,  Scot- 
land. Arrived  in  South  Africa,  1878.  Served  in 
Gaika,  Galeka  and  Zulu  Wars,  medals  and  clasps. 
Present  as  Guardsman  at  marriage  of  King  Edward 
VII,  1863,  and  King  George's  marriage,  1893. 

Herbert  Septimus  Scott,  Secretary  and  Examiner, 
Transvaal  Education  Department. 

Sir  Basil  Scott,  Kt.,  born  1859;  called  to  the 
Bar,  1883;  admitted  Advocate  of  High  Court  of 
Bombay,  1885;  Chief  Justice  of  High  Court  of 
Bombay,  1908. 

Benjamin  Charles  George  Scott,  Consul-General, 
Canton,  1900-1902;  attended  Li  Hung  Chang  on 
visit  to  England,  1896. 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  111 

James  Scott,  I.S.O.,  1905;  Consul-General,  Can- 
ton, 1902-1906. 

James  Scott,  C.I.E.,  1912;  Assistant  Private  Sec- 
retary to  Viceroy  of  India. 

John  Healey  Scott;  Chief  Magistrate,  East  Gri 
qualand.  Served  in  Galeka  War  and  Northern 
Border  War,  1878-1880. 

Rt.  Rev.  Charles  Perry  Scott,  D.D.;  Bishop  in 
North  China,  1880-1913. 

It  is  worthy  of  note  that  the  British  Airship, 
R-34,  on  its  memorable  double  flight  of  the  At- 
lantic, was  navigated  by  a  member  of  the  family; 
Major  G.  H.  Scott,  being  Commanding  Officer  and 
Pilot. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 

HE  importance  of  the  ancient  family  of 
Scott  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  more 
than  sixty  Armorial  Bearings  have,  at 
various  times,  been  granted  or  confirmed 
to  members  of  the  family.  Many  are  no  longer  in 
use,  but  among  those  extant,  the  following  are  of 
most  general  interest.  A  Scottish  clan,  as  such,  has 
no  distinctive  Armorial  Bearings,  the  arms  men- 
tioned being  in  every  case  those  of  the  head  of 
the  branch  of  the  family. 

The  Armorial  Bearings  of  the  Scotts  of  Buccleuch : 
Quarterly:  First,  the  arms  of  Charles  II,  debruised 
by  a  baton  sinister,  argent;  second,  or,  on  a  bend 
azure,  a  mullet  of  six  points  between  two  crescents 
of  the  field;  Scott;  third,  Quarterly,  first  and  fourth 
argent,  a  human  heart  gules,  crowned  with  an 
imperial  crown  or,  and  on  a  chief  azure,  three 
mullets  of  the  field;  Douglas;  second  and  third 
azure,  a  bend  between  six  cross-crosslets  fitchee 
or;  Marr;  the  whole  (of  this  quarter)  within  a 
border  or,  charged  with  the  double  tressure  of 
Scotland  gules;  the  third  quarter  is  borne  for  the 
Duchy  of  Queensberry;  fourth,  as  the  first.  Sup- 
porters, two  female  figures,  habited  from  the  waist 
downwards  in  blue  Mrtles  gathered  up  at  the  knees, 
their  heads  adorned  with  a  plume  of  three  ostrich 
feathers  argent. 

Motto — Amo. 

Crest — A  stag,  trippant  proper,  attired  and  un- 
guled  or. 

Seats — Dalkeith  House,  Dalkeith;  Bowhill,  Sel- 

112 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  113 

kirk;  The  Lodge,  Langholm;  Drumlanrig  Castle; 
Eildon  Hall,  St.  Boswells;  Boughton  House,  Ket- 
tering. 

Boughton  House,  from  the  family  of  Montagu, 
possesses  a  garden  of  above  100  acres,  and  avenues 
more  than  70  miles  long.  The  house  was  built  late 
in  the  seventeenth  century,  after  the  model  of 
Versailles. 

Arms  of  the  Earl  of  Eldon:  Argent  an  anchor 
erect  sable,  between  three  lions  heads  erased  gules, 
on  a  chief  wavy  azure,  a  portcullis  with  chains  or. 
Supporters,  two  lions  guardant  proper,  each  gorged 
with  a  double  chain  and  a  portcullis  attached 
thereto  gold;  pendant  from  the  portcullis  a  shield 
argent  charged  with  a  civic  wreath  vert. 

Crest — A  lion's  head  erased  gules,  gorged  with  a 
chain,  and  pendant  therefrom  a  portcullis  or. 

Motto — Sit  sine  labe  decus  (Let  honor  be  without 
stain) . 

Seat — Stowell  Park,   Gloucestershire. 

Arms  of  the  Earl  of  Clonmell:  Or  on  a  bend 
azure,  an  estolie  between  two  crescents  gold.  Sup- 
porters, Dexter,  a  female  figure  representing  Jus- 
tice, sinister,  a  like  figure  representing  Mercy. 

Crest — A  buck  trippant  proper. 

Motto— Fear  to  transgress. 

Seat — Eathorpe  Hall,  Leamington. 

Arms  of  Baron  Polwarth:  Quarterly,  first  and 
fourth  grand  quarters  quartered,  first  vert,  a  lion 
rampant  argent;  second  argent,  three  papingoes 
vert;  third  gules,  three  piles  engrailed  argent; 
fourth  argent  a  cross  engrailed  azure,  over  all  on 
an  escutcheon  azure,  an  orange  with  the  stalk  erect, 
slipped  proper  and  over  it  an  imperial  crown; 


114  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

second  grand  quarter  or,  two  mullets  and  a  cres- 
cent in  base  azure;  third  grand  quarter,  quar- 
tered; first  and  fourth  gules,  on  a  chevron  argent 
a  rose  between  two  lioncels  combatant  of  the  first; 
second  and  third  argent,  three  dock  leaves  vert. 
Supporters,  Dexter,  a  lion  rampant,  sinister,  a 
mermaid  holding  in  her  sinister  hand  and  resting 
on  her  shoulder  a  mirror  all  proper. 

Crests — First  a  lady  richly  attired  holding  in  her 
dexter  hand  the  sun  and  in  his  sinister  hand 
a  half  moon.  Second  issuing  out  of  a  man's  heart, 
or,  an  arm  from  the  elbow  proper  brandishing  a 
scimitar  of  steel,  with  cross  and  pommel  of  gold; 
third  an  oak  tree  proper  and  a  horse  passant 
argent,  saddled  and  bridled  gules. 

Mottoes — Fides  probata  coronat  (Approved  faith 
crowns) ;  Reparabit  cornua  Phoebe  (The  moon  will 
replenish  her  horns) ;  Keep  Tryste. 

Seat — Harden. 

Arms  of  Scott  of  Malleny:  Or  on  a  bend  azure 
a  star  between  two  crescents  of  the  first,  in  base 
an  arrow  bendways  proper,  feathered  and  barbed 
argent. 

Crest — A  stag  lodged  proper. 

Motto — Amo  probus. 

Arms  of  Scott  of  Gala:  Quarterly,  first  and 
fourth  or,  on  a  bend  azure  a  star  of  six  points 
between  two  crescents  of  the  field;  in  the  sinister 
chief  point  a  rose  gules  stalked  and  leaved  vert, 
for  Scott;  second  and  third,  argent  on  a  saltire 
engrailed  sable,  five  escallops  or,  for  Pringle  of 
Galashiels. 

Crest — A  lady  richly  attired,  holding  in  the  dex- 
ter hand  a  rose  proper. 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  115 

Mottoes — Prudenter  amo;  under  the  shield,  Sur- 
sum. 

Seat — Gala  House,  Galashiels. 

Arms  of  Scott  of  Wauchope:  Quarterly,  first 
and  fourth  or,  on  a  bend  azure  a  mullet  between 
two  crescents  of  the  first,  a  bordure  compony 
of  the  second  and  first  for  Scott;  second  and  third 
per  pale  or  and  argent,  a  lion  rampant  sable  in 
chief  three  mullets  azure  for  McMillan. 

Crest — For  Scott,  A  stag's  head. 

Mottoes — Miseris  succuro;  Ardenter  Amo. 

Arms  of  Scott  of  Harden:  Or,  on  a  bend  azure 
a  star  of  six  points  between  two  crescents  of  the 
field,  on  sinister  chief  a  rose  gules  slipped  and 
barbed  proper. 

Crest — A  stag  trippant 

Motto — Pacem  Amo. 

Arms  of  Scott  of  Melby:  Quarterly,  first  and 
fourth  or,  on  a  bend  azure  a  star  between  two 
crescents  of  the  field,  a  bordure  engrailed  gules,  a 
crescent  for  difference,  for  Scott;  second  and  third 
azure,  three  boars  heads  couped  or,  within  a 
bordure  indented  of  the  last,  for  Gordon. 

Crest — A  boar's  head  couped  or,  holding  in  the 
mouth  four  arrows  gules  feathered  and  headed 
argent.  »  't:^$& 

Motto — Do  well  and  let  them  say. 

Arms  of  the  Scotts  of  Scotstarvet  (male  line  ex- 
tinct) :  Or,  on  a  bend  azure  a  star  between  two 
crescents  of  the  field. 

Motto — In  tenebris  lux. 

and  fourth    argent,  a  fesse    embattled    counter- 
Arms  of  Scott  of  Dunninald:     Quarterly,  first 


116  History  of  the  Scott  Family 

second  and  third  gules,  on  a  chevron  argent,  three 
mullets  sable.  Supporters,  Dexter  an  heraldic  tiger, 
sinister  a  stag  proper  holding  in  his  mouth  a 
thistle. 

Crest — A  lion's  head. 

Mottoes — Spe  vires  augentur.  (Strength  is  in- 
creased by  hope)  ;  Tace  aut  face.  (Be  silent  or  do.) 

Arms  of  Scott  of  Synton:  Or,  two  mullets  in 
chief  and  a  crescent  in  base  azure. 

Motto — Reparabit  cornua  Phoebe. 

The  Scotts  of  Hassendean  bore  the  Scott  arms; 
and  Motto — Trustie  and  True. 

Arms  of  Constable-Maxwell-Scott  of  Abbotsford 
(Scott,  Baronet,  of  Abbotsford) :  Quarterly,  first, 
and  fourth  or,  two  mullets  in  chief  and  a  crescent 
in  base  argent  within  an  orle  of  the  last  for  Scott; 
second  and  third  or,  on  a  bend  azure  three  mascles 
of  the  field,  in  the  sinister  chief  point  an  oval 
buckle  erect  of  the  second  for  Haliburton.  Sup- 
porters, Dexter,  a  mermaid,  sinister,  a  savage. 

Crest — A  nymph,  in  her  dexter  hand  the  sun, 
in  her  sinister  hand  the  moon. 

Mottoes — Watch  well;  over  the  crest,  Reparabit 
cornua  Phoebe. 

Seat — Abbotsford. 

The  Seat  of  the  Scotts  of  Raeburn  is  Lessuden 
House,  St.  Boswells. 

The  Seat  of  the  Scotts  of  Brotherton  is  Brother- 
ton,  Johnshaven,  Kincardineshire. 

Arms  of  Scotts  of  Scots  Hall  were:  Argent, 
three  Catherine  wheels  sable  a  border  engrailed 
gules. 

Crest — A  demi  griffin. 

Arms  of  Scott  of  Great  Barr:     Argent,  on  a 


History  of  the  Scott  Family  117 

fesse  gules,  cotissed  azure,  between  three  Catherine 
wheels  sable,  as  many  lambs  passant  argent. 

Crest — On  a  mound  vert  a  beacon  fired  proper, 
ladder  argent. 

Motto — Regi  patriaeque  fidelis. 

Arms  of  Scott  of  Lychett  Minster:  Per  pale 
indented  argent  and  pean  a  saltire  counterchanged. 

Crest — Out  of  park  pales  ermine,  an  arm  erect 
holding  in  the  hand  a  scroll  proper. 

Seats — Westbury  House,  Northhants ;  North  Har- 
ris, Invernessshire. 

Arms  of  Scott  of  Beauclerc:  Per  chevron  azure 
and  or,  in  chief  two  bees  volant  and  in  base  a 
crescent  all  counterchanged. 

Crest — Between  the  horns  of  a  crescent  sable 
a  bee  volant  proper. 

Motto — Invitum  sequitur  honor.  (Honor  follows 
though  unsought  for.) 

Seat — Dornby  Grange,  Darlington. 

Arms  of  Sir  Percy  Moreton  Scott:  Argent, 
pellety,  in  base  a  lymphad  sable  pennons  flying  to 
the  dexter  gules,  in  chief  two  crescents  azure. 

Crest — An  ancient  cannon  firing  to  the  dexter 
proper. 

Motto — Aim  straight. 


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